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The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

by Liu Cixin (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 06, 2026 11:22PM

“These scams enraged them, and from the crucible of their fury, they themselves emerged pure. They wanted corruption removed from the root, so that honest people could prosper for a change, as if they had no role to play in the shape of their lives, in the fate of their cities and their country, as if these stories of graft unfolded in black vacuum.”
― Amrita Mahale, Milk Teeth

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“I imagine all wars look the same to those who die in them.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer

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“How can we resist exploitation if we don’t have the tools to understand exploitation?”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

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“She does not get out of bed for fourteen hours; she has no sense of time, the clock says so. She just lies there, boneless and hopeless. Her mouth is dry; she rolls her tongue around her teeth and feels moss. How gross, she thinks, distracted for a moment. A smile slips through the picket lines and perches itself on her face, till it is blown off by remembrance.”
― Amrita Mahale, Milk Teeth

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“Judaism and Christianity, and Islam too, all drip honeyed words of love and mercy so long as they do not have access to handcuffs, grills, dominion, torture chambers, and gallows. All these faiths, including those that have appeared in recent generations and continue to mesmerize adherents to this day, all arose to save us and all just as soon started to shed our blood.”
― Amos Oz, Judas: Prize-Winning Biblical Romance of Love, Betrayal, and Secrets in 1959 Jerusalem

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