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Starling House

by Alix E. Harrow (Goodreads Author)

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The Last Sunday in May: A Novel

by Kate Clark Stone

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“Well, what the fuck would an extraterrestrial life form want to come here for?”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

tags: extraterrestrial

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“Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

tags: happy

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“It's a wonder they ever get out of bed at all. But they do, repeatedly, thousands of times each. And not only that - they do it themselves, with no technology to help them. Maybe a little electrical activity in their toothbrushes and hairdryers, but nothing more than that. And all to reduce body odour, and hairs, and halitosis, and shame.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

tags: the-human-condition

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“This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

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“And after that, after the awkward shuffling away of that last thin layer of clothes, words retreated to the sounds they once were. We had sex. A happy entanglement of warm limbs and warmer love. A physical and psychological merging that conjured a kind of inner light, a bio-emotional phosphorescence that was overwhelming in its gorgeousness. I wondered why they weren’t prouder of it. Of this magic. I wondered why, if they had to have flags, why they didn’t just opt for one with a picture of sex.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

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