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“A seed is alive while it waits. Every acorn on the ground is just as alive as the three-hundred-year-old oak tree that towers over it. Neither the seed nor the old oak is growing; they are both just waiting. Their waiting differs, however, in that the seed is waiting to flourish while the tree is only waiting to die.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Each beginning is the end of a waiting. We are each given exactly one chance to be. Each of us is both impossible and inevitable. Every replete tree was first a seed that waited.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“being able to derive happiness from discovery is a recipe for a beautiful life.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
The Grishaverse
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Enter a lavish world where science and superstition collide. Established in Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone Trilogy and further expanded in the Six o ...more
Anarchist & Radical Book Club
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This is a group to read and discuss anarchist practice and theory, by gathering a large body of anarchist literature, non-fiction, and theory, as well ...more
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