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The Hades Moon: Pluto in Aspect to the Moon

by Judy Hall (Goodreads Author)

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A Book of Fairies

by Katharine M. Briggs

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The David Icke Guide to the Global Conspiracy: And How to End It

by David Icke

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“At 5: 00 the next morning, only a couple of hours after the opposite result had been announced, I was wandering around my house, as traumatized as many other people but in a more personal way: it felt as though 62,979,636 voters had chosen to turn this country into a macro version of my malignantly dysfunctional family.”
― Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

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“The banks admonished him for betraying their agreement, but they never took any action against him, which just reinforced his belief that he could do whatever he wanted, as he almost always had.”
― Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

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“A large minority of people still confuse his arrogance for strength, his false bravado for accomplishment, and his superficial interest in them for charisma.”
― Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

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“I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

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“Abuse can be quiet and insidious just as often as, or even more often than, it is loud and violent. As far as I know, my grandfather wasn’t a physically violent man or even a particularly angry one. He didn’t have to be; he expected to get what he wanted and almost always did. It wasn’t his inability to fix his oldest son that infuriated him, it was the fact that Freddy simply wasn’t what he wanted him to be. Fred dismantled his oldest son by devaluing and degrading every aspect of his personality and his natural abilities until all that was left was self-recrimination and a desperate need to please a man who had no use for him.”
― Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

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