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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 1984 by George Orwell Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin The Martian by Andy Weir
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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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“Why were we expected to speak English perfectly while praising Americans for even the clumsiest dribble of Chinese?”
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― Peng Shepherd, The Cartographers
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“I is the hardest word to define.”
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