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A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #8)

by Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)

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A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

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Could it be that every quality Shesheshen had fallen in love with was a symptom of pain?

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“We deserve to have our wrongdoing represented as much as our heroism, because when we refuse wrongdoing as a possibility for a group of people, we refuse their humanity.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

tags: complexity, evil, good, humanity, representation, wrongdoing

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“Imagine having the power to become resilient to all that is hostile to us.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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“I predict I will always be in negotiation with my body, what it wants, and what I want of it.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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“Feral goldfish are so good at living they have become an ecological menace. Of course, it’s not their fault; goldfish would never have gotten into the river if we hadn’t thought of them as disposable.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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“Imagine the freedom of encountering space for the first time and taking it up. Imagine showing up to your high school reunion, seeing everyone who once made you feel small, only now you’re a hundred times bigger than you once were. A dumped goldfish has no model for what a different and better life might look like, but it finds it anyway. I want to know what it feels like to be unthinkable too, to invent a future that no one expected of you.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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