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Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

by Leigh Bardugo (Goodreads Author)

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read in April 2021

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Kristyn said: " 4.5 stars. "

Apr 22, 2021 11:14PM · see review

“If every murder and every serious assault against a black man on the streets were investigated with Skaggs’s ceaseless vigor and determination—investigated as if one’s own child were the victim, or as if we, as a society, could not bear to lose these people—conditions would have been different.”
― Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

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“You remember how Mom had that embroidered pillow? When she got upset, she’d shout into it and no one would hear her. That’s Facebook.”
― Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno

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“We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

tags: civilization, humanity, self

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“But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”
― Anthony Marra , A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

tags: life, words

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“And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males. We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten the man. If you are the breadwinner in your relationship with a man, pretend that you are not, especially in public, otherwise you will emasculate him.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

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