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Ian is Currently Reading

Ian Martin is currently reading

Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)

by Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)

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Coffin Moon

by Keith Rosson (Goodreads Author)

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The Fireman by Joe Hill

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There’s something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out. Of course, I suppose everyone always dies in the middle of a good story, in a sense. Your own story. Or the ...more

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Ian’s Quotes

“Put a man in a room for a hundred years with a thousand books”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

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“But I can tell you that the people who give you charity are never your friends. It is not possible to receive charity from a friend.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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“Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. Everything changes, nothing perishes.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

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“people will always choose a simple lie over a complicated truth, because the lie has one unbeatable advantage: the truth always has to stick to what actually happened, whereas the lie just has to be easy to believe.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

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“My mom? When I was little, she used to do this thing at the movie theater where she would ask for an extra cup for water, but then she would fill it with butter from that li’l pump thing instead. And then when we got to the middle of the popcorn bag, we’d pour it in, and it was like a li’l butter refresher midway through.”
― Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

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