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Murder Road

by Simone St. James (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 1-adult, horror, decade-1990s

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Alchemised

by SenLinYu (Goodreads Author)

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Graceless Heart (The Spellbound History, #1)

by Isabel Ibañez (Goodreads Author)

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TJL’s Quotes

“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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“If a man fears dogs, he may beat one with a stick when he sees it. As is the nature of all creatures, that dog will bite him. And then he may tell everyone that he was right about dogs, that they are evil. But I ask you, who is at fault in this scenario, the man or the dog?”
― Adriana Mather, How to Hang a Witch

tags: prejudice, stereotypes

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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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“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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