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The Ice (The Bound and the Broken, #3.5)

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Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ

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― Nick Cutter, The Troop

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“He was trying to put loss into words, but loss is absence and will always defy expression.”
― John Connolly, The Wolf in Winter

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“Even a zombie lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assault of a million fluorocarbon spray cans of deodorant.”
― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

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“It's fair to say that mortality takes many manifestations, but so does the indomitable nature of the human spirit, and it does so in ways that are sometimes hardly noticeable.”
― James Lee Burke, Wayfaring Stranger

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“I’m so sick of political correctness. I’m suffocated by it. We’re so goddamn politically correct that we lose our individualism, our definition as human beings. Don’t you agree?”
― Ronald Malfi, Snow

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