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Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)

by Suzanne Collins

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by Donna Tartt

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The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins

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you can put miles and mountains between you and home, but eventually, home will call you back.

Paper Towns

by John Green

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Animal

by Lisa Taddeo

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“People are like this too, you know,” he says eventually. “We break. We put ourselves back together. The cracks are the best part. You don’t have to hide them.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

tags: brokenness

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“We were coloreds or Negroes, and to call someone black was to invite a fistfight. But Malcolm remade the menace inherent in that name into something mystical--Black Power; Black Is Beautiful; It's a black thing, you wouldn't understand.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

tags: black-power, malcolm-x, the-atlantic

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“This strength of feeling over classic stories being ruined wasn't around when the Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist was remade into a film in which the lead character was cast in the image of a cartoon cat.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

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“[Art] must reflect the world in all its brutality and beauty, not in hopes of changing it but in the mean and selfish desire to not be enrolled in its lie, to not be coopted by the television dreams, to not ignore the great crimes all around us.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

tags: art, black-author, history, malcolm-x, nonfiction

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“I'll never again speak to many of the people who loved me into this moment, just as you will never speak to many of the people who loved you into your now. So we raise a glass to them--and hope that perhaps somewhere, they are raising a glass to us.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

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