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Project Hail Mary

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Carmen’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Heated Rivalry (Game Changers, #2)

Heated Rivalry (Game Changers, #2) by Rachel Reid

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“I’m coming to the cottage.”

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Carmen’s Quotes

“Bubby: All my friends are dying! The bastards! Don't they know I want to play mah-jongg?!”
― Seth Rogen, Yearbook

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“That which you tend, you come to adore with the kind of love that bypasses sense and reason.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

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“There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

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“Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there's another family and that's the kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they're as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don't have to look out for you and they don't have to love you. They choose to.”
― Dennis Lehane, The Given Day

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“Cats?” Baba looked up from practicing chopping tomatoes, looking as if he might explode. “Kittens? ‘Persian’ should remind people of the empire that stretched from one side of the East to the other. The empire that set a new global standard, contributed mountainfuls to astronomy, science, mathematics, and literature, and had a leader, Cyrus the Great, who had the gumption to free the Jewish people and declare human rights! That empire! You can’t be shortsighted when you look at history. History is long!” Baba was shouting now. He continued to slice tomatoes. “Cats! What have we been reduced to?”
― Marjan Kamali, Together Tea

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