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Clockwork Boys (Clocktaur War, #1)

by T. Kingfisher

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The Hanging Tree (Rivers of London, #6)

by Ben Aaronovitch (Goodreads Author)

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Penny’s Notes & Highlights

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I Like You Just Fine When You're Not Around by Ann Wertz Garvin

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“Stop making happiness some kind of concrete goal. It’s a side effect. It’s a secondary happening, but not the main event. Happiness is what you feel when you’ve been kind, fair, or loving in the face of hardness. It is the feeling of light ...more

Penny’s Quotes

“I found I was more confident when I stopped trying to be someone else’s definition of beautiful and started being my own.”
― Remington Miller

tags: be-yourself, confident

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“Though the one-drop rule is no longer law, even today mixed race is defined by the minority race. An example is former president Barack Obama. Though his father was black and his mother was white, he is referred to as the first black president, as if his father’s blackness erased his mother’s whiteness.”
― Gail Lukasik, White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing

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“I carve things of wood because things made by effort are more real than things made by wishing.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

tags: effort, wishing

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“Patience does not run Nor blow, nor skitter, nor falter. Patience is the swell of the ocean; Patience is the sigh of the mountain; Patience is the shirr of the Bog; Patience is the chorus of stars, Infinitely singing.’ ” “I”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

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“Respect for women is essential,” Jack tells him. “Women’s rights and economic development within a country are highly correlated. Treating women properly is not just a moral position—which it is—or an American value—which it is. It’s a strategic imperative, and you will always, always lead by example in this regard.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Orphan X

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