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branon’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) by N.K. Jemisin

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LET’S START WITH THE END of the world, why don’t we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things. First, a personal ending. There is a thing she will think over and over in the days to come, as she imagines how her son died and ...more

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branon’s Quotes

“When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

tags: art, artists, evil, happiness, pain

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“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin

tags: books, reading

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