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Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)

by Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)

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Justine said: " Currently rereading via audiobook

2016 read - 4.5 stars rounded up
Morning Star is an exciting conclusion to the action-packed story arc of the first Red Rising trilogy. The book takes its time with the pacing and spends some time on character growth, ...more "

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""It's easy to be bold in the moment, because all you have is what you can process: see, smell, feel, taste. And that's a very small amount of what is. But afterward, when everything decompresses and uncoils bit by bit, and the horror of what you did and what happened to your friends hits you. It's overwhelming."" — Feb 13, 2016 01:51PM

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Cycle of the Werewolf

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“The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary. Having that real though limited power to put established institutions into question, imaginative literature has also the responsibility of power. The storyteller is the truthteller.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

tags: fantasy, imagination, literature, science-fiction, story

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“Modern war is fearing the air, the shadows, fearing the silence. Death will come and I won’t even see it.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

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“Because the world had decided that to be soft was to be weak, even though in Joan’s experience being soft and flexible was always more durable than being hard and brittle. Admitting you were afraid always took more guts than pretending you weren’t. Being willing to make a mistake got you further than never trying. The world had decided that to be fallible was weak. But we are all fallible. The strong ones are the ones who accept it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

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“Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

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“A good story cannot function like a legal brief, which attempts to persuade and lead the reader down a narrow path suspended above the abyss of unreason. Rather, it must be more like an empty house, an open garden, a deserted beach by the ocean. The reader moves in with their own burdensome baggage and long-cherished possessions, seeds of doubt and shears of understanding, maps of human nature and baskets of sustaining faith. The reader then inhabits the story, explores its nooks and crannies, rearranges the furniture to suit their taste, covers the walls with sketches of their inner life, and thereby makes the story their home.”
― Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

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