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"I love reading from other countries and I especially love historical fiction. This one is harder than usual for me to follow because I think it's the first novel I've read that's set in Vietnam but I'm looking forward to the story." — Aug 20, 2026 07:28PM
"I love reading from other countries and I especially love historical fiction. This one is harder than usual for me to follow because I think it's the first novel I've read that's set in Vietnam but I'm looking forward to the story." — Aug 20, 2026 07:28PM
When you find yourself caught in a crazy system dreamed up by dangerous lunatics, you just do what you’re told.
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.”
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“What she needs are stories.
Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.
Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. And books.
Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.
Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. And books.
Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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