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The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller (Goodreads Author)

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Alexis’s Notes & Highlights

Swift to Chase by Laird Barron

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my humble opinion, that goes double for sufficiently advanced lunacy being indistinguishable from supernatural phenomena.

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“To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and brave— that was magical.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

tags: magic, survival, whimsy

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“From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and horrified investigators.”
― China Miéville, The City & the City

tags: linguistic-beauty

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“The elder Navarro had believed, as did the ancient philosophers of the Far East, that the cosmos ultimately revealed itself as a repeating pattern, an infinitely replicating superstructure contained and embodied in a galaxy, down to a drop of blood.”
― Laird Barron, The Light is the Darkness

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“Thanks to global warming it is beginning to seem likely that the Northwest Passage will open for longer and longer periods each year, until, perhaps by the end of this century, ice will have vanished from the world altogether and the ancient dream of a Northwest Passage will have been, unexpectedly and inadvertently, realized.”
― Anthony Brandt, The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage

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