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The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

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Steel Gods (The Great Silence #2) by Richard Swan

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“The legacy of the tyrant is always a fleeting thing, for he is unable to build, only destroy. His laws and reforms extract the lifeblood from public works like a parasite, and concentrate it in the hands of the already wealthy. His ...more

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“No Mourners.
No Funerals.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
― Euripides

tags: bereavement, dream, greek, grief, loss, mourning, shadow, tragedy

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“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand...there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.”
― JRR Tolkien

tags: frodo, frodo-baggins, lord-of-the-rings, the-return-of-the-king

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“One flesh, one end, bitch.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

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“I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

tags: entertainment, introvert, tv

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