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Solo Leveling, Vol. 3

by Dubu

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A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind

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Midnight on Beacon Street

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Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft

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He may truly believe his own promises, because he wants to see himself as a generous and thoughtful partner, one who does not use or disrespect women. Later, when he begins to control the woman and take advantage of her, he will find ways ...more

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Steph’s Quotes

“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

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“Everyone tended to believe everything was their fault; maybe it was just hard to imagine, when you were still fairly young, that there were some things in the world that were just not about you.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

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“And that might just be the root of the problem: we're all afraid of each other, wings or no wings.”
― Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

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“But she also saw that the Boyds were people whose love came with added sourness—and maybe, as a result, their son had developed the capacity for unspeakable sadness, and who could blame him? Dennis and Jules had both come from families that hadn’t really felt good. This they’d shared, and when they’d come together it was to make a home that did feel good, and even sometimes to say: Fuck you, disappointing families.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

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“At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn’t converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food—for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them. Even the mites and the mussels. But no one can use you up unless you let them.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

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