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Book cover for Equal Rites (Discworld, #3)

Equal Rites (Discworld, #3) by Terry Pratchett

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The mist would have curled anyway: it was experienced mist and had got curling down to a fine art.

I Know This Much Is True

by Wally Lamb

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“for a fraction of a moment, my entire childhood felt like a lie: it was as if one of the pillars of belief that my world has been built upon has crumbled”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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“For the guys in the ring, it was different. They did it for the money, but not only for that. They did it because that's what they did. They weren't looking for a way out. They were looking for a way in, a road back to some place they sensed inside themselves.”
― Michael Marshall, The Straw Men

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“It's not monsters we're afraid of. Monsters were only a comforting fantasy. We know what our kind is capable of. What we're frightened of is ourselves.”
― Michael Marshall, The Straw Men

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“If we were all the same species, there was little hope for us; that nothing we ever did in the daytime would bleach out what some of us were capable of at night.”
― Michael Marshall, The Straw Men

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“If God meant for us to carry baggage around, he would have made our skin have little pouches like kangaroos. Or maybe he would have just made it so that each and every one of us were born with huge- ass shoulders to carry the load. Clearly, we weren’t made to carry the weight of the world, kinda makes you wonder why we do it anyway, huh?”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic

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