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Spark of the Resistance by Justina Ireland

Geeks and the Holy Grail by Mari Mancusi

The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi

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Nicole’s Quotes

“And everyone is alive, somewhere in time.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

tags: life, time

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“What you were saying about speaking. That's what music is for. Anyone can understand.”
― Natasha Pulley, The Lost Future of Pepperharrow

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“She sometimes forgets what she wrote, save that it was true, and the writing hurt.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

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“Myth and legend give way to history, which gives way again to myth, like curtains parting and meeting again on either side of a performance. xxx All good stories travel from the outside in.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

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“Sometimes what’s unlikely is much better or more interesting than what’s likely. So I write it down so that there’s a record of it, when I forget. The book is for dead memories.”
― Natasha Pulley, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

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