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The Light of All That Falls (The Licanius Trilogy, #3)

by James Islington (Goodreads Author)

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Isles of the Emberdark

by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)

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Towers of Midnight (Wheel of Time, #13)

by Robert Jordan

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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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But for more primitive multicellular organisms—sponges, say—for which competitive existence is an everyday battle, every morsel of food precious, constancy a looming threat, and territory a limited resource, the potential invasion by ...more

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Desiree’s Quotes

“You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.”
― Sarah Kay

tags: emptiness, words

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“Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

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“Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot”
― Iain M. Banks

tags: consider-phlebas

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“I’m not his man, Father. I’m Uhtred of Bebbanburg, and the lords of Bebbanburg don’t marry pious maggotfaced bitches of low birth.”
― Bernard Cornwell

tags: bernard-cornwell, burn, the-last-kingdom, the-saxon-stories

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