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Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)

by Isaac Asimov

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Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

by Philip Reeve (Goodreads Author)

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The Little Schemer

by Daniel P. Friedman

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Karl’s Quotes

“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“What I find most troubling is the recent expectation for sudden weight loss after pregnancy. It’s perverse that the finest compliment given to a woman who has just made a person is that she looks like she hasn’t.”
― Sara Pascoe, Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body

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“Do as they bid you...but in your heart, remember who and what you are.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

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“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

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“What strikes me now is why did they send the boys away? Why don’t boys get educated about menstruation? Is it because the teachers think girls will be embarrassed? I feel like the secrecy of it, the action of segregating us, sends the message that we should be ashamed. That our periods are something to hide from the opposite sex.”
― Sara Pascoe, Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body

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