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Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

by Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)

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"Ajax you coward!" — Nov 19, 2025 04:01PM

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Artemis

by Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)

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"It's nice to see a female protagonist in a book about science. It reminds one of the great achievements made by women in the field of cosmology/space exploration. Women like Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space" — Oct 27, 2025 09:04AM

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Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

by Ruth Emmie Lang (Goodreads Author)

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Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang

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could tell, even before he spoke, that he had drained his mind of his own sadness and replaced it with empathy for mine. “I’m really sorry,” he said, and meant it.

Daryl’s Quotes

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

tags: adventure, death, life

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“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: loss

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“I’m trimmed in memories as if in old furs. I lift my arm and the sleeve of memory covers it.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

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“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: death

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