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The Floating World (The Floating World, #1)

by Axie Oh (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 19, 2026 04:56PM

“I'm trying to understand fleeting and dangerous phenomena such as life itself. Every life that is ignited is a universe. Every life that is extinguished is a universe.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Animal Life

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“Sometimes I ask myself, what the hell are we all running around for, anyway? To make money? But what the hell do we need money for if all we do is run around making it?”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic

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“You--cannot ever be certain of those you love--that they will not hurt you, even loving you. But to make me certain to love you, will be to take away any love I might give you freely.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

tags: freedom, freedom-to-love, love

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“It’s difficult to understand another person. But what is even more difficult to understand, difficult to know, what is most alien of all that is alien, unknown of all that is unknown, is one’s self.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Animal Life

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“I think,' said Ammar ibn Khairan of Aljais, very slowly, 'that I should know you in a pitch black room. I think I would know you anywhere near me in the world.' He paused. 'Is that answer enough, Jehane? Or too much of one? Will you say?”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Lions of Al-Rassan

tags: historical-fantasy

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