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Empire of the Vampire (Empire of the Vampire, #1)

by Jay Kristoff (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: fantasy, currently-reading

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The Lion Women of Tehran

by Marjan Kamali (Goodreads Author)

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Kings of the Wyld (The Band, #1)

by Nicholas Eames (Goodreads Author)

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Forrest’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)

Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2) by T.J. Klune

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Barely a cloud in the sky. The blue above matched the blue below. The tail end of summer, warm, but then he was always warm. The salt in the air tickled his nose, and he breathed it in until it filled his lungs.

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Forrest’s Quotes

“The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.”
― David Foster Wallace

tags: comformism, difference, individuality, isolation, suicide

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“Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

tags: bitterness, disability, disappointment, emptiness, feelings, fulfillment, happiness, hope, joy, love, potential, relationships, self-awareness

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“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”
― Theodore Kaczynski

tags: absurdity, depression, drugs, pharmaceuticals, psychiatry, psychology, society

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“We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy... But our temporal progeny are often thankless. We toil and sweat to give them just what we think they will like, and they quit their jobs, grow their hair, move to or from San Francisco, and wonder how we could ever have been stupid enough to think they’d like that. We fail to achieve the accolades and rewards that we consider crucial to their well-being, and they end up thanking God that things didn’t work out according to our shortsighted, misguided plan.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness

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