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“Historically, the most dangerous man on earth were men of God. Especially when their gods became threatened.”

Nice start.

“ if he would be obsessed with safety if he and Iris had more than one child, or would he just have three or four or five times the amount of worry.”

This is me to a tee.

Loving it so far

This is really good. Riveting, a little bit too close to our current Iran war for my liking, but it’s very well written and paints a vivid picture of war.

“They rode on into the hot puffs of air, as if somewhere in the heart of the desert a dragon had stirred awake and was casting his breath at the travelers, waiting for them to ride into his lair before letting loose his terrible fire.”

“They rode on into the hot puffs, severe, as if somewhere in the heart of the desert, a dragon had stirred awake and was casting his breath at the travelers, waiting for them to write into his layer before letting loose his terrible fire.”

Oh how I miss the most amazingly creative similes in metaphor that can be found in old-fashioned Harlequin, and silhouette romance books! 😀

Tuchman maintains that christian theology deems a merchant cannot sell his items for profit, only to cover the cost of ingredients to make said item. Yet once again we’re in a part of history where there was a huge disparity between the halves and they have nots. Tendency of humans to want to get us much possible for as little as possible.

“History never repeats itself,” said Voltaire; “man always does.” Thucydides, of course, made that principle the justification of his work.

I only got in 4 chapters. Too rambling, characters disconnected, I am traumatized by this woman’s life and lost ability to relate to her.

Real life is hard. I don’t need to read even harder in fiction. It seemed to be without point.

Oh my goodness this reminds me so much of A Man called Ove.

You can’t keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

“Steam bloomed.”

What a fun description of steam coming off a cup.

“When the alternative is death to your entire species things are very easy. No moral dilemmas, no weighing what is best for whom.”

If you’ve read The Martian you should read this. The author is giving me a run for my money in my science and physics knowledge.

Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies.

~Barack Obama, A Promised Land