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Murder Road

by Simone St. James (Goodreads Author)

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Alchemised

by SenLinYu (Goodreads Author)

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Graceless Heart (The Spellbound History, #1)

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TJL’s Quotes

“If fiction and politics ever really do become interchangeable, I’m going to kill myself, because I won’t know what else to do. You see, politics always change. Stories never do.”
― Stephen King, It

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“The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality

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“It was easier to manipulate someone if they didn’t perceive you as a threat.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

tags: manipulation

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“[...] I mean, this was the second half of the twentieth century, for pity's sake, and they still saw communism as the road to utopia. I wonder if any of the people spouting these messages ever really grasped, in later years, the depths of the misery for which they were responsible.”
― Masaji Ishikawa, A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

tags: communism

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“Mercer doesn’t have to do anything alien to him. He suffers but at least he isn’t required to violate his own identity.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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