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Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)

by Fonda Lee (Goodreads Author)

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The Marvelous Land of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

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The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee, #1)

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“When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

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“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: life, sanity

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“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

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“Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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