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Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)

by Benjamin Stevenson (Goodreads Author)

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“We go through life in our little boxes until we find ourselves in the last one, buried in the ground.”
― Robert J. Crane, Alone

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“flexibility without structure isn’t flexibility at all; it’s just chaos.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence

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“Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are."
The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it stared at him with bright eyes.
"Say 'Nevermore,'" said Shadow.
"Fuck you," said the raven.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: edgar-allan-poe, humor, nevermore, parody, poe, raven

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“Techniques like us-versus-them labels, loaded language, and thought-terminating clichés are absolutely crucial in getting people from open, community-minded folks to victims of cultish violence;”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence

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“He had said that our lives are steered by uncertainties, many of which are disruptive or even daunting; but that if we persevere and remain generous of heart, we may be granted a moment of lucidity—a moment in which all that has happened to us suddenly comes into focus as a necessary course of events, even as we find ourselves on the threshold of the life we had been meant to lead all along.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

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