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Octavian is Currently Reading

Octavian is currently reading

Fruit Fly

by Josh Silver (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 20, 2026 03:12AM

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Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization

by Kenneth W. Harl

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

bookshelves: cozy, fiction, currently-reading

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Octavian’s Quotes

“Rebels depend on willful gullibility.”
― Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

tags: disunity

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“I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a lacerating duality. I'm seemingly free, but I'm a prisoner inside of me.”
― Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

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“At times she had thought that this was the only kind of connection you could have with people—intense, inexplicable and ultimately incomplete.”
― Mary Gaitskill, Bad Behavior

tags: human-connection, human-interaction

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“So much of who we are is what we remember and retell,”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

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“All you can do is take each day as it comes. Try and do the best you can with what you're given. You won't always do the right thing, but you can try. And you can try to do the right thing next time. That, and stay alive.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes

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