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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

Your wife’s willingness to allow a daughter to grow inside her who had, by all laws of probability, a fifty-percent chance of inheriting your face, is something you should view as a compliment. Perhaps the greatest compliment a woman can ...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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“She did a lot of things out of spite, the source of which she couldn't identify. as if she'd been born resenting the world.”
― Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky

tags: women

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“My mother once said, "A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it is finished.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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“Any formula advanced as a resolution of the conflict will necessarily and inevitably fail if it is not squarely based on the principle of equality.”
― Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017

tags: peace

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