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Tales from the hinterland

by Melissa Albert (Goodreads Author)

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Roberta R. (Offbeat YA)’s Quotes

“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.”
― Edward P. Morgan

tags: books

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“The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

tags: indoctrination

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“Summer is the time when it is too hot to do the job that it was too cold to do last winter.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humour, reality-of-life

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“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

tags: depression, mental-disorders, mental-illness, my-heart-and-other-black-holes, sadness

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“My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

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