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David Portnov

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Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)

by Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)

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Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

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But he’d found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.

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David’s Quotes

“On Mars there is not much gravity. So you have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

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“My experience growing up as a nerd was that role-playing games were an outsider hobby played by dorks, dweebs, freak machines, poindexters, and every stripe of pencil-necked geeks. In other words, my tribe.”
― Ben Riggs, Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons

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“Cheese pizza is a fine thing, no doubt, but the addition of pepperoni makes it into something totally different—namely, a pepperoni pizza—and a pepperoni pizza is not the same as a cheese pizza, for it has pepperoni. These things are not the same. Unalike. Dissimilar. Two entirely separate and distinct Platonic categories. One titled cheese pizza. The other entitled pepperoni pizza.”
― Ben Riggs, Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons

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