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The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

by Emily Clark

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In the Shadow of Wolves

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Spellcrafting: Strengthen the Power of Your Craft by Creating and Casting Your Own Unique Spells

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“This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

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“Humanity lives in its fiction.”
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“Books fall open, you fall in.”
― David T.W. McCord

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“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
― Anthony Burgess

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“While the wealthy are no more likely to be born stupid than the poor, a wealthy upbringing compounds stupidity while a hardscrabble childhood dilutes it, if only for Darwinian reasons. This is why the elite need a prophylactic barrier of shitty state schools, to prevent the clever kids from the working-class post codes ousting them from the Enclave of Privilege.”
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