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“Everything else is ambiguous. Everything else is emotions and hunches. At least the facts you can cling to; the emotions just float away.” “Float away with them,” said his mother. “If you can remember how, Ishmael. If you can find them again. If you haven’t gone cold forever.”
― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

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“What’s “ague?”‘ Raya asked.
‘Malaria.’ Oscar said.
‘Oh, great.’
‘Hey, you want plague? They got that too.’ Raya ignored
the cat.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, children-s-paranormal, coming-of-age, coming-of-age-fiction, engaging, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, occult, supernatural, young-adult

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“Meditation without love is like drinking tea from an empty cup.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

tags: love-in-spirituality, meaningful-living, meditation

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“Here’s her story, a tale of the bear-keeper’s daughter and the Empire: what happened to her and what happened because of her.”
― Carol Strickland, The Eagle and the Swan

tags: byzantine-empire, courtesan, dances, desire, history, imperial-palaces, manuscript, ruins, secrets, swan-dancer

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“Just like the myth of the people’s or popular capitalism, which was propagated since the mid1950s in the countries to the west of Berlin Wall, to the east and the north of it, since the same time it was introduced the myth of the people’s or popular socialism. But the suggestion is always the same. Under any “people’s” power—from people’s capitalism to people’s socialism—the greatest illusion suggested to the oppressed classes is that the people are sovereign, i.e., that all the people dominate over themselves. In this respect, even John Kenneth Galbraith makes Marxist conclusions, which even in the Internet epoch have the same power: “Young people are suggested that in a democracy the entire power belongs to the people!” (“The Anatomy of Power”)
Yet, old people know that this is not true!”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face