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Misery

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad

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In the mid-1970s Saddam began forcibly moving minorities, including Kurds and Yazidis, from their villages and towns into cinder-block houses in planned communities, where they could be more easily controlled, a campaign people call the ...more

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“And I tell her about his description because I want her to know what I now know, which is that the place where the pepper grows is not a place to be afraid of…
I tell her: Mama, exile is not always the darkest corner of the earth. Sometimes it is lush and plentiful, sometimes it is full of life…”
― Carola Perla, Gibbin House

tags: exile, historical-fiction, literary-fiction

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“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books

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“We live and breathe words.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

tags: books, living, reading, words

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“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

tags: books, life

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“As Elizabeth put it, “I have neglected no duties, have injured no one, have always tried to do unto others as I would wish to be done by; and yet, here in America, I am imprisoned because I could not say I believed what I did not believe.”
― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

tags: feminism

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