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The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora

by Pablo Cartaya (Goodreads Author)

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"I'm listening to the audio book to decide whether it will be our class novel for the end of year. I think it will work for our students though I think the villain is a little two dimensional for middle grade." — Apr 20, 2026 04:03AM

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Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1) by Leigh Bardugo

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Kaz pointed to the prison gate in the ringwall. “Remember what I told you at Hellgate, Nina?” “It’s hard to keep track of all your wisdom.”

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Marian’s Quotes

“Is this Dornish wine?” Tyrion asked him once, as he pulled a stopper from a skin. “It reminds me of a certain snake I knew. A droll fellow, till a mountain fell on him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

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“No system which implies control by privilege seekers has ever ended in any other way than collapse.”
― Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

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“The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho

tags: cern, doctor-who, fun

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“It was astounding, Bobbie thought, how quickly humanity could go from 'What unimaginable intelligence fashioned these soul-wrenching wonders?' to 'Well, since they’re not here, can I have their stuff?”
― James S.A. Corey

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“It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

tags: august-1914, ignorance, prejudice, tolerance

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