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The Riddle-Master of Hed (Riddle-Master, #1)

by Patricia A. McKillip

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Defiance: A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria

by Loubna Mrie

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“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
― Charles Bukowski

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“the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat”
― William Faulkner

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“Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

tags: entropy, rebel, rebellion, revolution

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“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: books, reading, truth

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“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

tags: action, community, daring, loneliness, purpose, youth

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