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This Is How You Lose the Time War

by Amal El-Mohtar (Goodreads Author)

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A Third Kind of Madness

by Christiane Knight (Goodreads Author)

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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

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“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

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“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

tags: life

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“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

tags: bibliophilia, books

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“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: conscience, innocence

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