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Just After the Wave

by Sandrine Collette

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Pirate Queen: The Life of Grace O'Malley, 1530-1603

by Judith Cook

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Chris’s Quotes

“O ineluctable superiority of northernness”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

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“... for I had reached a point in my life when I came to view words differently. A closer look at language could reveal the secret of life.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow

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“I knew now how happiness awoke; I knew that happiness was quiet, that it hid in crevices but could not be destroyed by shouting and whipping.”
― Jiří Weil, Life with a Star

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“Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?
If it were not for language, could we lie?”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang

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“Works that have a certain imperfection to them have an appeal for that very reason - or at least they appeal to certain types of people... You discover something about that work that tugs at your heart - or maybe we should say that the work discovers you.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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