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He looks out at the border and wonders what’s happening in Mexico. The chaos and violence go on. Rafael Caro is dead and Tito Ascensión is the new “godfather,” so brutal and stupid men rule on both sides of the line. But there’s no wall
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“People endured horrors, and then they couldn’t talk about them. The real stories of the world were bedded in silence.”
― Old God's Time
― Old God's Time
“Influenza delle stelle—the influence of the stars.”
― The Pull of the Stars
― The Pull of the Stars
“Mrs Pitt shouted up the stairs for her daughter with a voice like a foghorn, then smiled cheerfully at Calvin. "She'll be down in a mo," she said, and showed him in to the front room, which was a colourful sea of Lego bricks with a small child bobbing in it.”
― Exit
― Exit
“Ever since I was old enough to question my own instincts, my mother has given me the same piece of advice: “Flip a coin, Eleanor. If the answer you get disappoints you, do the opposite.” We already know the right answer, even when we don’t—or we think we don’t. But what if it’s a trick coin? What if both sides are the same? If both are right, then both are wrong.”
― The Paper Palace
― The Paper Palace
“influenza means, she said. Influenza delle stelle—the influence of the stars. Medieval Italians thought the illness proved that the heavens were governing their fates, that people were quite literally star-crossed.”
― The Pull of the Stars
― The Pull of the Stars
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