Maximilian Birkl
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This book seeks to paint a portrait of Gaza through the eyes of its writers, as a city different to the one presented in the media. Gaza is a city like all cities by the sea, where people relax on the beach, where the streets have names and
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“This book is dedicated to anyone who has ever fallen in love with a culture that was devouring their own.”
― A Memory Called Empire
― A Memory Called Empire
“If anything it seemed to be gaining momentum, like a very boring avalanche.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
“Children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“war was nothing more than an argument in which no one had landed on a better solution than killing each other.”
― The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
― The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
“Nothing touched by Empire stays clean.”
― A Memory Called Empire
― A Memory Called Empire
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