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The Thorn Queen (The Rose Bargain, #2)

by Sasha Peyton Smith (Goodreads Author)

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Hamnet

by Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author)

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“There's something about love that resembles faith. It's kind of a blind trust, isn't it? The sweetest euphoria. The magic of connecting with a being beyond our limited, familiar selves. But if we get carried away by love- or by faith- it turns into a dogma, a fixation. The sweetness becomes sour. We suffer in the hands of gods that we ourselves created.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

tags: faith, god, love

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“She was a foreigner and, like all foreigners, she carried with her the shadow of an elsewhere.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

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“The world is no longer the same for the one who has fallen in love, the one who is at its very centre; it can only spin faster from now on.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

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“If there was a God up there, He must be laughing His head off at a human race capable of making atomic bombs and building artificial intelligence, but still uncomfortable with their own mortality and unable to sort out what to do with their dead. How pathetic it was to try to relegate death to the periphery of life when death was at the centre of everything.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

tags: death, mortality

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“As far as she was concerned, the apocalypse was not the worst thing that could happen. The possibility of an immediate and wholesale decimation of civilization was not half as frightening as the simple realization that our individual passing had no impact on the order of things, and life would go on just the same with or without us. Now that, she had always thought, was terrifying.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

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