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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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6 years, 9 months ago

drifting to the brink of catastrophe

'[...] you're also describing, or supposing, a world in which people are more self-serving, narrow-minded, and fearful than I believe they are. And yes, you might say they've become this way, overworked and undereducated and cut off from the forms of association through which we find meaning and co…

—p.176 Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists 3 Country & Eastern (174) by Greg Jackson
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6 years, 9 months ago

the gross practically of the human body

[...] The delusion and fantasy of the ruling classes kept pace with the wishful thinking of idealist. The edifice of established order practically tesselated cracks. And most of them were cosmetic, sure, but it only took one fatal line of distress. When the structure came down, it would come down i…

—p.175 Country & Eastern (174) by Greg Jackson
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6 years, 9 months ago

why don't they just leave?

'I don't understand why anyone would want to stay in Gotham City. It's a stupid place with all these crazy motherfuckers walking around killing people and blowing shit up. Why don't they just leave?'

I laughed when he said it because I was too young to understand that Edwin was serious, that he …

—p.153 Leaving Gotham City (142) by Yaa Gyasi
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they do not see the deaths as theirs

[...] Those in the western sector don't see our gains though our actions do end in deaths - the deaths of their people - but since they are not united and lives are not purchasable, they do not see the deaths as theirs. They buy new panes and clothing and attempt to ignore us. [...]

—p.113 Revolutions (96) by Jen George
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I believed that's all you were

'I hated you at times. I saw all of your weaknesses, like your disease or your come face and, and at moments, I believed that's all you were,' I say.

'Likewise,' he says, very sweetly.

—p.108 Revolutions (96) by Jen George