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Un Lun Dun

by China Miéville (Goodreads Author)

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— Sep 27, 2009 06:51PM

Sep 27, 2009 06:51PM

Recently, astronomers rearranged their biggest telescopes, aimed them at one tiny crevice in the cosmos, and managed to catch a glimpse of one breathtaking sphere, which they named Earendel, the Old English word for Morning Star. Billions ...more

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“Christianity is so weird, but everyone pretends like it isn’t.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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“When you name a thing, you are giving a future. But you are also giving a past. A place in the order of things.”
― Hala Alyan, I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir

tags: birth, identity

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“He wondered then if all waiting didn’t require some amount of faith. If all of life was waiting. Waiting for what?”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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“Hannah wanted to have children, and I wasn’t necessarily against it, but didn’t really believe in the future.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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“Beyond this, for the purpose of negotiations, the Palestinians ought to treat the United States as an extension of Israel.”
― Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

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