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“Many will argue that such views of Putin are hyperbolic. As I watch politics in the UK and US implode under Russia’s destabilisation effort I can only wonder why. Putin controls the President of the United States. What will it take for the west to wake up and realise the danger we are all in?”
― Alternative War
― Alternative War
“You know, I’m really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.”
― Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
― Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
“Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell”
― The House of Life
I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell”
― The House of Life
“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“Many people assume that leaving a cult like the Brethren must be exhilarating. ‘You had no TV or pop music or cinema,’ they say, ‘and then you did? It must have been amazing!’ But when you see interviews with people who have recently left cults, they describe feeling bewildered and frightened; their eyes dart around, searching for points of reference, metaphors that would get somewhere close to describing the feeling of being lost, not-at-home, without walls.”
― In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult
― In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult
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