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The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)

by James Islington (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 02, 2026 02:09AM

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A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl #8)

by Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)

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“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: inspirational

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“Ask any veteran video game developer their least favorite thing about the industry and you’ll probably get a different version of the same answer: it treats people poorly. It chews them up and then spits them back out, leaving nothing but gristle and bones behind”
― Jason Schreier, Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry

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“We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

tags: feeling, love, loving

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“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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“The name Hitler does not offend a black South African because Hitler is not the worst thing a black South African can imagine. Every country thinks their history is the most important, and that’s especially true in the West. But if black South Africans could go back in time and kill one person, Cecil Rhodes would come up before Hitler. If people in the Congo could go back in time and kill one person, Belgium’s King Leopold would come way before Hitler. If Native Americans could go back in time and kill one person, it would probably be Christopher Columbus or Andrew Jackson. I”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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