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Catherine is Currently Reading

Catherine is currently reading

This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7)

by Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)

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Catherine’s Quotes

“Next time, can you ask him to bring cookies? I don't like to put up with that level of insane unless there's some kind of high-calorie compensation.”
― Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls

tags: cookies, crazy-people, customer-service, insanity, work

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“But she was the kind of girl you couldn't keep down. Unless you cut her up and caved in her skull.”
― Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls

tags: kind-of-girl

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“Peter had spent his whole life in a town where fights were either drunken and friendly, or silent and petty. True war was foreign to him. He thought of how scared and confused he had been when the battle broke out in the Nest; he was in a different world now.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

tags: war

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“You can be a rich scumbag just as easily as a poor scumbag, or you can be a decent human being either way. Money’s got nothing to do with it. It’s nice to have, but it’s not what makes you who you are.”
― Tana French, Faithful Place

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“If you're Native American and you pray to the wolves, you're a savage. If you're African and you pray to your ancestors, you're a primitive. But when white people pray to a guy who turns water into wine, well, that's just common sense.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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