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Into the Deep: A Memoir from the Man Who Found Titanic

by Robert D. Ballard

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Cain's Jawbone

by E. Powys Mathers

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Anu said: " My 2023 project is to read and "crack" this book. Hopefully, this year is less of a shitshow than the last, and I actually get to finish my project. See you all on the other side!

Honestly however, I'm about 15 pages down, and although I can't really ...more "

Jan 29, 2023 01:50AM · see review

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Birdsong

by Sebastian Faulks

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"She sighed. It didn't matter. Tomorrow was Saturday and she would sleep in as long as she liked. She could read the paper in bed with the radio playing softly in the background and no one to interrupt her tranquil routine.

A girl after my own heart, this one. :')" — May 25, 2016 07:58AM

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Anu’s Quotes

“Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

tags: ira, ireland, northern-ireland, the-troubles, violence, war

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“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: insightful, lonely, thought-provoking

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“She knows that stories have the power to change things: the past and the future, even the present.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

tags: change, power, power-of-words, powerful-story

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“What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: life, love, poetry

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“In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Có nhớ mẹ không? I flinch, thinking you meant, Do you remember me?

I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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