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Lena is Currently Reading

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A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

by Arkady Martine (Goodreads Author)

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— Sep 30, 2026 02:51PM

Sep 21, 2026 05:49PM

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Gender is Really Strange

by Teddy G. Goetz (Goodreads Author)

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— Sep 14, 2026 12:17PM

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Stars in Your Eyes

by Kacen Callender

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Lena’s Quotes

“That’s right. He is Charls. I am Charls. We are cousins,’ said Charls, gamely, ‘named after our grandfather. Charls.”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

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“But the law is not an instrument to find out truth. It is there to create a fiction that will help us move past atrocious act and face our future. It seems there is no mercy in this world, but a kind of haphazard justice: men pay for crimes, but not necessarily their own.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light

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“I am going to stand against him now, though his hands are like flame, though his hands are like flame, and his heart like the shining of iron.”
― Homer

tags: classics

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“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

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“I am not winning any arguments because I know how to hurt someone. How does that prove that you're right? How does being stronger or more vicious prove anything, except that all this talk about honor is stupid? Where's the honor in being better at hurting somebody? Telling me I have to do this is insulting, as if I can't win any other way. As if I can't win in a better way.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

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