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Metallic Realms

by Lincoln Michel (Goodreads Author)

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No Horns, No Trumpets: A Memoir of Brain Injury and Recovery

by Alice D. Clark

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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

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“…what the President meant in the intercepted chat. This was, uh, nothing but a routine translation problem. It has to be understood, that…It has to be understood that when the President referred to the Prime Minister of the Global Alliance as a ‘big sh*thead,’ what he was trying to convey was, uh—this is an American idiom used to praise people, by referring to the sheer fertilizing power of their thoughts. The President meant to say that the Prime Minister’s head was fertile, just full of these nutrients where ideas can grow. It really was a compliment…”
― M.T. Anderson, Feed

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“Whenever the wife wants to do drugs, she thinks about Sartre. One bad trip and then a giant lobster followed him around for the rest of his days.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

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“Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

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“The room does not smell like apple. It smells like frog juice, a cross between a nursing home and potato salad. The Back Row pays attention. Cutting dead frogs is cool.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

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“All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. So, he whispered to the sleeping boy. I have you.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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