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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1) by Becky Chambers

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Vast civilizations lay within the mosaic of dirt: hymenopteran labyrinths, rodential panic rooms, life-giving airways sculpted by the traffic of worms, hopeful spiders’ hunting cabins, crash pads for nomadic beetles, trees shyly locking ...more

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“Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

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“The sad truth about our present always punctuates my happy memories of our past with full stops.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

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“It’s hard to shine when surrounded by stars.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

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“I want to be happy with you, princess. For as long as you’ll let me. Whatever time we have together will be a greater gift than I deserve. And when you go back to the mortal world”—his voice grew raspy—“I will be cheering for you every step of the way, honored that, even for a short time, I got to call you mine.”
― Jaysea Lynn, For Whom the Belle Tolls

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“So we’re good?” Dillon says. “We’re in an overheating truck we don’t own and we just blew up about twelve semis and we left a paralyzed woman to die in her car and I’m wearing some dead guy’s jacket and we just saw our two best friends die and there’s a killer after us who can change his face and likes to eat people,” Harper says. “Yeah, I’d say we’re great.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Killer on the Road / The Babysitter Lives

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