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Karen is Currently Reading

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Clown Town (Slough House, #9)

by Mick Herron

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Book cover for Emergency Skin (Forward Collection, #3)

Emergency Skin (Forward Collection, #3) by N.K. Jemisin

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They still build societies around their least and worst instead of the best and brightest.

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“I didn't tell him the rest of what I knew -- that once you gave up even a little of yourself, it wasn't long before you gave up everything. But he'd learn that for himself soon enough.”
― Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming

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“When you are as young as I was then, a world of any kind begins at the outskirt of your imagination, and you populate it with those who have proven themselves to you.”
― Doig, Ivan

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“There is something to be said for experiencing great art, or nature, by oneself; the absence of other people makes the enjoyment more pure, and one's perceptions grow acute and discerning.”
― Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming

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“For it is better -- is it not? -- to attempt to change things slowly than not to strive for progress at all.”
― Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming

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“But it had been a long day, they had heard one another's stories and that made it harder to dislike one another, so Julia said something incredibly generous instead.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

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