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Ordinary Monsters
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Syd Syd said: " I love this story, this world, these characters, the writing style (which is sort of meandering and stream of conscience in a wonderful way). Some books you read and are too aware of the author and the writing to the point that it pulls you out of th ...more "

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“because where else and why not.”
― J.M. Miro, Ordinary Monsters

Richard Flanagan
“Things bled. They bled and bled and would not stop bleeding. There would be no dramatic end, she realised, only a slow withering […] bleeding and more bleeding.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Sanai
“Unable to perceive the shape of You,
I find You all around me.
Your presence fills my eyes with Your love,
It humbles my heart,
For You are everywhere.”
― Hakim Sanai

“It is lightning that strikes, not thunder.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

Edgar Allan Poe
“I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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