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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar

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Love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down.

Chilling Effect (Chilling Effect, #1)

by Valerie Valdes

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“Filled with existential ennui about your place in the universe? Get over yourself. Yes, you're an inconsequential worm in the grand scope of history. But you're an inconsequential worm who makes shit up for a living, which means that you don't have to lift heavy boxes or ask people if they want fries with that. Grow up and get back to work.”
― John Scalzi, Redshirts

tags: history, life, work, writing

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“Who are you and what medications aren't you taking?" Finn said.”
― John Scalzi, Redshirts

tags: meds

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“Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

tags: music

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“In life you hoped to do what you could but mostly you did what you were told and that was the end of it.”
― Iain M. Banks, Matter

tags: decisions, life, wants

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“I reached between the seats to the backseat, where her purse was on the floor. It was the size of a grocery bag and it weighed a ton.

"What the hell do you have in this thing?"

"Everything."

I didn't ask for further explanation. I managed to pull the bag up to the front seat, open it, and find her iPad. I put the bag on the floor between my feet, lest I pull a muscle leveraging it into the back again.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

tags: leveraging, pull-a-muscle, purse

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