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The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)

by James Islington (Goodreads Author)

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Agents of Light and Darkness (Nightside, #2)

by Simon R. Green

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Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

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Ala’s Quotes

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

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“I seem to myself, as in a dream,
An accidental guest in this dreadful body.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

tags: embodiment, illness

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“I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.”
― Vikram Seth, From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet

tags: future-nostalgias, nostalgia

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“The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.”
― Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8, Vol. 1: The Long Way Home

tags: buffy-the-vampire-slayer, changing-the-world, epiphany, humour, irony

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“Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

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