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shan is Currently Reading

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Queens at War (England's Medieval Queens #4)

by Alison Weir

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The Terror

by Dan Simmons

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shan’s Quotes

“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

tags: love, revolution

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“Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”
― Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

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“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor, simile

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“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
― Jean Paul

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“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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