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Book cover for The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men

The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men by Manuel Betancourt

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MY LEAST FAVORITE SUBJECT AT SCHOOL WAS, WITHOUT A doubt, physical education. Every trimester, when I got my report card, I’d look aghast at that one subpar grade sullying my otherwise stellar record. In other classes I could study harder ...more

Copper Script

by K.J. Charles

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All of Us Murderers

by K.J. Charles

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Hilm’s Quotes

“If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand

tags: humour, ignorance, ridiculous, sucking-up

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“Why stop at seven margaritas when you can just print a new liver?”
― Kelly Weinersmith, Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything

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“Consider Augustus’s motto. Hurry more slowly.”
― Jo Walton, Lent

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“Tambi’s expression changed again, this time to one of a humble supplicant. ‘I am not asking much,’ he said. ‘Only a miracle. Can you do this?’
Wong looked down at the briefing papers in front of him for a moment. Then he looked Tambi in the eye. ‘Miracles we have fifteen per cent extra surcharge. Is it okay?”
― Nury Vittachi, The Feng Shui Detective

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“I am Bartimaeus! I am Sakhr al-Jinni, N’gorso the Mighty, and the Serpent of Silver Plumes! I have rebuilt the walls of Uruk, Karnak, and Prague. I have spoken with Solomon. I have run with the buffalo fathers of the plains. I have watched over Old Zimbabwe till the stones fell and the jackals fed on its people. I am Bartimaeus!”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand

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