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Laura is Currently Reading

Laura is currently reading

Why Does E=mc²? (And Why Should We Care?)

by Brian Cox

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Sep 05, 2019 12:28AM

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Memoirs of a Polar Bear

by Yōko Tawada

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“This isn't a conversation. This is the sort of monologue you run in your head with lovers you'll never speak to again. This is what happens when thoughts curdle.”
― Kieron Gillen, Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker

tags: conversation, ex-lovers, lovers, thoughts

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“Sit up straight, Dlique. Don’t dismember your sister, Dlique, it isn’t nice. Internal organs belong inside your body, Dlique.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword

tags: dismember, internal-organs

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“Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice

tags: emotion

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“You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served.”
― Nina Simone

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“Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don’t you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken. Or a duck. Or whatever they’re programmed to be. You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of the night last week.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword

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