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The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment

by Amelia Gentleman

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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

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“The sky grows dark
The black over blue
Yet the stars still dare
To shine for you”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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“Every second of every day we are entering a new universe. And we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

tags: life-and-living

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“Nora had read about multiverses and knew a bit about Genstat psychology. About how human brains take complex information about the world and simplify it, so that when a human looks at a tree it translates the intricately complex mass of leaves and branches into this thing called 'tree'. To be a human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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“Mr Brown believes that only then - only when we know how race works in a specific place - can we begin to think about the ways in which power and prestige are distributed unevenly based on those local ideas about race and colour and phenotypic features. If race works and behaves differently in different places, then the same is true for racism.”
― Kei Miller, Things I Have Withheld

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“Levade had told her one day that there was no such thing as a coherent human personality. When you are forty you have no cell in your body that you had at eighteen. It was the same, he said, with your character. Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Charlotte Gray

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