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Cuba: An American History

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“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

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“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

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“He's still looking in my eyes. Staring me down like he did that dragon, chin tilted and locked. "I'm not the Chosen One," he says.
I meet his gaze and sneer. My arm is a steel band around his waist. "I choose you," I say. "Simon Snow, I choose you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

tags: baz, carry-on, romance, simon

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“You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

tags: baz, carry-on, love

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“Time doesn’t heal all wounds. We both know that’s bullshit; it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

tags: death, death-and-dying, death-of-a-loved-one, depressing, gay-romance, grief, heartbreaking, sad-quotes, time

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