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Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1)

by J.M. Miro

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“How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

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“Death, it seems, has a mind of its own.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

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“The Wilhelm Gustloff was pregnant with lost souls conceived of war. They would crowd into her belly and she would give birth to their freedom.”
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“I wept because i had no shoes,
until i met a man who had no feet.”
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“One had followed the rules, and one had not. But the problem with rules... was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the time they were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure what side of the line you stood on.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

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