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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

by Octavia E. Butler

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Cherry Baby

by Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author)

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May 12, 2026 11:34AM

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Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy, #3)

by Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 22, 2026 10:03AM

“I want an avowed atheist in the White House. When time comes to push that button, I want whoever's making the decision to understand that once it's pushed, it's over. Finito. They're not gonna have lunch with Jesus. Won't be deflowering 72 virgins on the great shag carpet of eternity, or reincarnated as a cow. I want someone making that decision who believes life on this Earth isn't just a dress rehearsal for something better -- but the only shot we get.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

tags: 72-virgins, atheism, jesus, nuclear-holocaust, reincarnation, religious-dogma, white-house

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“Anyway, what I really think good writing does: It enlivens that part of us that actually believes we are in this world, right now, and that being here somehow matters. It reawakens the reader to the fact and the value of her own existence.”
― George Saunders, Tenth of December

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“She saw for the first time the way we fill our homes with macabre altars to the live things we've murdered__ the floral print of the twin mattress in her childhood bedroom, stripped of its sheets when she soiled them; ferns on throw pillows coated in formaldehyde; poppies on petrochemical dinner plates; boxes and bags of bulk pulpstuffs emblazoned with plant imagery the way milk cartons are emblazoned with children. A rock on a window ledge, cut flowers stabbed in vases, a wreath of sprigs nailed to the front door-- every house a mausoleum, every house a wax museum.”
― Claire Vaye Watkins

tags: dystopia

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