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“His mother always told him he would “be a real somebody, be important someday.” And now that she was gone, he wanted to prove her right all the more.”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: animalinfluenced, animalstories, dreamsandambition, foundfamily, griefandhope, heartfeltreads, kidlit, middlegrade, pageturner

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“Sillyhead, Sam said. Are you kidding! You’ve been raised by pirates. Remember!”
― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode

tags: adventure, book-quotes, fantasy, found-family, friendship, humor, middle-grade, pirates

57 likes

“Like a bastard child of a royal house, we’re hidden from public view.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: class-divide, court-intrigue, fantasy, literary-fantasy, outsider, palace-kitchens, power, vivid-imagery

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“People are becoming more and more like pets in digital cages, where the only meaning of their lives is to consume and isolate themselves from others like themselves.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: digitalage, modernlifecritique, philosophicalfiction, screentime, socialcommentary, thoughtprovokingreads, wakeupcall

478 likes

“Did you splice my—DNA?”
Hannah puts her hand on the side of his face and looks him square in the eyes. “Your girlfriend was kind enough to let me pull some marrow from her rib, Romeo.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

tags: biohacking, dna, genetics, lab-life, mad-science, medical-thriller, regenerative-medicine, sci-fi-medicine, stem-cells

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