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Ashwise is Currently Reading

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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942

by Ian W. Toll (Goodreads Author)

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Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire

by Julian Sancton (Goodreads Author)

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Innamorata (The House Of Teeth, #1)

by Ava Reid (Goodreads Author)

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Ashwise’s Quotes

“The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that.”
― Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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“It’s no small thing, to be allowed to keep one’s dignity.”
― Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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“You must be careful with that, Roos. It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a person.”
― Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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“To draw blood is just another kind of passion, isn’t it?”
― Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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“the Marines, if successful, would prove even more extraordinary than an attack on the embassy. The Marines were, after all, a symbol of American might. For the operation, he brought in Abu Haydar Musawi, who commanded a martyrdom group known as the Husayni Suicide Forces. On October 18—the same day Reagan’s”
― Jack Carr, Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror

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