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“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.”
― Life After God
― Life After God
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― The Fran Lebowitz Reader
― The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“What you’ve written isn’t a novel. It’s a cry for help.” I”
― Lust & Wonder
― Lust & Wonder
“Claytronic atoms—also called programmable matter. They’re like nanomachines, but more complex, and a lot more powerful. Bonded together, they operate on a human scale instead of a microscopic one. They can change their density, energy levels, a whole range of properties.”
― Gods of Night
― Gods of Night
“In the taxonomy of pain there is only the pain inflicted by touching and the pain inflicted by not touching. Peter grew up an expert in both. Malnourished, the skin on his thin neck perpetually covered in boils, he was as scarred as the surface of Mercury; a planet lacking atmospheric protection, exposed to the hurtling debris of space and wearing its history of collision and battery on its face.”
― The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
― The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
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Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, Travel, War, glbt, magical-realism, japan, asia, japanese-literature, korean, japanese, pagan, witchcraft, and paganism
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