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“This is like coming home, like coming home after years away among Trojans and Lestrygonians, like coming home to a place where everyone is like you, where people know, they just know—coming home as when everything falls into place and you suddenly realize that for seventeen years all you’d been doing was fiddling with the wrong combination.”
― Call Me By Your Name
― Call Me By Your Name
“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― The Awakening, and Selected Stories
― The Awakening, and Selected Stories
“Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were.
It hasn’t happened this morning, either.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
It hasn’t happened this morning, either.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening
Dystopia Land
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THE BIGGEST GROUP FOR DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE ON GOODREADS. What you can do in the group? * You can say 'Hi', or tell us what you are reading * Yo ...more
Dystopian Mind Fuck
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— last activity Mar 19, 2026 03:30PM
This group has been created to exclusively read and discuss dystopian and banned books.
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