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I can't breathe. This was so exceptional. I'm crying. I'm laughing. I'm shaking. Holy shit that was one of the best books I've ever read.
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"Rereading this since I feel like smiling and crying simultaneously." — Nov 28, 2015 08:49AM
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“Maybe I’ll post a consumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.”
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The sword pulsed, almost like it was laughing. I imagined it saying, A pen sword. That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.”
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"I dunno. Something pocket-size and innocuous. A pen, maybe?"
The sword pulsed, almost like it was laughing. I imagined it saying, A pen sword. That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.”
― The Sword of Summer
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