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Ian is Currently Reading

Ian Gustilo is currently reading

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

by Ilan Pappé

bookshelves: nonfiction, politics, social-issues, urgent-to-read, history, currently-reading

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— Jun 29, 2026 11:14PM

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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

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Ian’s Quotes

“You will be hated and you will hate. You will love and be loved. You will fall and you will rise. Never will you know peace, but you will know joy.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

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“I kept looking for hope in the world. Expecting the world to supply deliverance if I plucked the right chords. Demanding that it supply validation to my labor if I just gave enough effort. But that is not the nature of the world. Its nature is to consume. In time, it will consume us all, and the spheres will spin until they too are consumed when our sun dies. Maybe that is the point of it. Knowing that though one day darkness will cover all, at least your eyes were open to see moments of light.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

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“Matter, how tiny my share Time, how brief my allotment Fate, how small my roll to play Self, all that can be mastered”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

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“The key is having a long memory for the sweet, and a short one for the bitter.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

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“He is my favorite smell, my favorite sound, my favorite sight. He will never know how much I love him because he does not remember the day Darrow and I conceived him, or the months I carried him inside me, or the minute he came into the world, the moment he said his first word or took his first step, or made me laugh for the first time. I remember all those things, and all the things about them. Where the sun lay in the sky, how his father’s eyes sparkled, what I feared in those moments, what I hoped for his life to be. That season of life is a haze to him, but when I die and reflect on my life, I know I will still believe that season was the meaning of mine.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

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