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Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it

by Pete Wharmby

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House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City, #2)

by Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)

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A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)

by Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)

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“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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