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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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Qian Julie Wang
“Why were we expected to speak English perfectly while praising Americans for even the clumsiest dribble of Chinese?”
― Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country
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George Orwell
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984
tags: truth
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Peng Shepherd
“Maps are love letters written to times and places their makers had explored.”
― Peng Shepherd, The Cartographers
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John Green
“I is the hardest word to define.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
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Shaun David Hutchinson
“Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
tags: dreams, life, memories, we-are-the-ants
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