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“Life was a gift you accepted without questioning its generosity or reason.”

“Quentin did not know what lay beyond death, but he thought it might be something better than life and that maybe that something allowed you to make up for missed chances and lost dreams.”

“He became Prime Minister of the Federation’s Coalition Council, but he lost his soul.

“Night descended on the land like a great silken cat, its shadow darkening the woods in steadily deepening layers, stealing away the daylight with stealth and cunning.

Hard to put down, a true mystery thriller, even more so because it’s true.

“Threats are the refuge of the impotent, shouting at an indifferent world how he’s gonna sodomize it good, while the world regards his sad, limp phallus and mocks.”

“That someone deserves killing doesn’t mean that the killing doesn’t leave a mark on the killer.”
I love Brent Weeks

This book was so easy to read and hard to put down. It felt almost like sitting around a living room, drinking a beer and having a great conversation. And, while it broke my heart all over again that her presidential "plans" would not come to pay, I take comfort in her still being a Senator and still persisting.

Hard to put down. Her wealth tax just makes so much sense, the way she describes it.

"They heard the sounds of clanging metal as doors were barred and shuttered, each farther away than the last, until finally there was only the sound of their own breathing in the deep silence of their prison. Balinor had come home."
I love Terry's wordcraft.

"He could not muster enthusiasm for a Maker who would create something as absurd as Man. If he chose a religion, it would be Druidism, because it made as much sense to worship an oak tree as any deity."

Beginning book 3

Beginning book 2

This is a very sad, but vitally important, book. It reminds me how lucky I was to get into subsidized housing only 6 months after I applied. I have never been homeless since my children were born. The vast majority of those who qualify for subsidized housing are not even allowed to apply, because the lines are already too long

"...wherever you find obsessive, irrational, murderous antisemitism, there you will find a culture so internally split and fractured that if its members stopped killing Jews they would start killing each other." ... "And when the violence is over, the problems remain, since the scapegoat was never the cause of the problem in the first place. So people die. Hope is destroyed... And God weeps."

"...wherever you find obsessive, irrational, murderous antisemitism, there you will find a culture so internally split and fractured that if its members stopped killing Jews they would start killing each other."

"...The insistent and repetitious sexual imagery allows us to observe the Levite attitudes toward the sexual customs of the Goddess religion, autonomy that had for thousands of years helped to allow women to retain their independence... Thus into the laws of the Levites was written the destruction of the worship of the Divine Ancestress, and with it the final destruction of the matrilineal system."

So far this series has been very interesting. I am enjoying it very much.

"From India to the Mediterranean...She reigned supreme"

"From India to the Mediterranean...She reigned supreme"

15 minute curried cauliflower mock kebabs. Sounds like my kind of side dish.

"To his mind, it was. better to allow a guilty man to live than execute an innocent, for two reasons: The heavens managed these matters better than did men. And a guilty person could be prosecuted later, on better evidence, while an innocent 'cannot be brought again to life when once dead.'"

"No one should be convicted got a crime he committed in someone else's imagination."

I'm afraid I am having a great deal of trouble reading this book. I am finding it difficult to stay awake.