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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

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Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.

A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of the Columbine Tragedy

by Sue Klebold

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Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)

by Rebecca Yarros

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“The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.”
― Philip G. Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

tags: manipulation, mind-control

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“Thus, melancholia arises when there is failure to recognize the traumatic nature of the wound causing pain.”
― Cassie Premo Steele, We Heal from Memory: Sexton, Lorde, Anzaldúa, and the Poetry of Witness

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“I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.”
― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

tags: identity

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