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"While many of the controls and propaganda attempts instituted by the Empire were designed to foster ongoing support and acceptance of Imperial rule, one of the most difficult aspects of understanding the Imperial state is acknowledging that much of its popular support appears to have been organically achieved."

this book is fictional and yet, so familiar ... 😭

“Excuse me,” I said. “Do you know—?”
He stabbed me. I hadn’t seen the sword in his hand. I thought; what the devil are you playing at? He pulled the sword out and swung it at my head. I may not be the most perceptive man you’ll ever meet, but I can read between the lines; he didn’t like me.

"Princess Leia Organa would note years later that her adoptive father Senator Bail Organa had once, sadly, recounted a story to her where an unnamed senator—one whom he implied was a close friend—had noted that the jubilant acclaim was “how liberty died.”

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"I have occasionally been told, after a thousand years and God knows how many violent deaths, that my grins are no longer reassuring."

You aren't born knowing you will die. Someone has to break the news.

"You were victims.”

I didn’t know about that word. What did you call yourself when you’d taken an active role in your own suffering? When your hands weren’t clean, when there wasn’t a single part of you that was, especially not your mind, all those deep, dark corners?

“With crispy, it’s so obvious that you’re destroying the food in order to get your sensation. What is more marvelous than to control a nice structure with your mouth?”

"I thought to give you a life free of pain, but that was never what you wished for, was it? Even gentleness is pain for you."

Hertha Ayrton remarked that while errors overall are 'notoriously hard to kill [...] an error that ascribes to a man what was actually the work of a woman has more lives than a cat.'

I said, "I don't—" and stopped there because i didn't have any way to finish that sentence. I needed help, I didn't want anyone to touch me. Those were two mutually exclusive states."

mood

I had thought her belief about Piyyut as her alien friend was a child's way of coping with a dysfunctional & abusive family dynamic and then it just got so much worse so quickly. 😭

"So there she was, too bored for Tupperware parties and too scared to look at her own vagina."

"New Atheism is not intellectually rigorous."

shots fired on the four horseman.

I've been waiting for a memoir from any of the kids who had to grow up in the mommy blogger/family YT spectacles - it's bound to be more horrifying than what's on video.

'I heard that fire-starting and bed-wetting are early signs of—of psychopathy. Is that true?'

you can't tell me she's a well-respected detective and then also have her say something this ignorant - who in criminal justice doesn't know about the MacDonald triad??

He laughs. The rage threatens to fill me once more, but I do not let it. The monkey observes.

“Over and over, the United States told war on terror veterans that it would never give them what they were owned, with the unsettling implication that it knew it would default on the debt when it took out the loan in the first place.”

This is straight up COD fanfiction set in an urban fantasy world. A blond British soldier Zach Riley, codename Ghost , who wears a mask to cover his face, has a tattoo sleeve on his left arm and has reached mythical status as a special operative? Sure, just an OC.

"Also destined for the digital equivalent of the cutting room floor are shots showing male cichlids fertilizing the eggs in the females’ mouths, always a difficult topic to explain during family TV time."