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The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: historical-fiction, over-500-pages, physical-tbr, currently-reading

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American Gods (American Gods, #1)

by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)

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“Running away was not like it was in stories. People did not try and stop you. They did not give chase. The thing people didn't understand was that you had to decide what you were running away from. Most of the time it wasn't mothers or fathers or monsters or villains; most of the time you were running away from that little voice inside your head, the one telling you to stay where you are, that everything will turn out all right.”
― Robert Dinsdale, The Toymakers

tags: adventure, complacency, fugitive, runaway, running-away

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“The end doesn't always justify the means. But sometimes it does. Wisdom is knowing the difference.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

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“Once upon a time, all of us, no matter what we've grown up to do or who we've grown up to be, were little boys and girls, happy with nothing more than bouncing a ball against a wall”
― Robert Dinsdale, The Toymakers

tags: adulthood, adults, childhood, children

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“Death must exist for life to have meaning.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

tags: death, live, meaning, thunderhead

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“As a kid you idolize your parents. You think they're perfect, because they're the yardstick by which you measure the rest of the world, and yourself. Then as a teenager they just piss you off, because you realize that not only are they not perfect, but they may be even a little more screwed up than you. But there's that moment when you realize they're not superheroes, or villains. They're painfully, unforgivably human. The question is, can you forgive them for being human anyway?”
― Neal Shusterman, Dry

tags: dry

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