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The Road to Tender Hearts

by Annie Hartnett (Goodreads Author)

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Piranesi

by Susanna Clarke

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“All that you touch
You Change.

All that you Change
Changes you.

The only lasting truth
is Change.

God
is Change.”
― Octavia E. Butler

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“And what? You think it’s going to get sane? It’s never been sane. You just have to go ahead and live, no matter what.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

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“Anger was a chokehold. Anger did not empower you. It sat on your chest; it squeezed your ribs until you felt trapped, suffocated, out of options. Anger simmered, then exploded. Anger was constriction, and the consequent rage a desperate attempt to breathe.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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“theoretical rights like freedom and liberty would be debated between those who already enjoyed them,”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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“The English made regular use of only two flavours – salty and not salty – and did not seem to recognize any of the others. For a country that profited so well from trading in spices, its citizens were violently averse to actually using them; in all his time in Hampstead, he never tasted a dish that could be properly described as ‘seasoned’, let alone ‘spicy’.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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