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Tonya is currently reading

Star Shipped

by Cat Sebastian (Goodreads Author)

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Tonya’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)

A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1) by Becky Chambers

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“So, the paradox is that the ecosystem as a whole needs its participants to act with restraint in order to avoid collapse, but the participants themselves have no inbuilt mechanism to encourage such behavior.” “Other than fear.” “Other than ...more

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Tonya’s Quotes

“Civilization is often a task that is only barely managed. But harden your heart and slow your blood. The towers of justice are built one brick at a time. We have more to build yet.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup

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“Humans are great at imagining stuff. That’s why their media is so good.”
― Martha Wells, System Collapse

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“Cynicism isn't interesting; it is often no more than a mask we place over tedium.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

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“I’d watched a lot of humans watch or read all kinds of media, so I knew that when they didn’t talk and didn’t move much except to eat crunchy things out of bags, it was a good sign.”
― Martha Wells, System Collapse

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“That’s really the golden age, isn’t it? That’s what my brain is longing for, a time when I only saw the sparkle. A time when I loved this unabashedly because I hadn’t realized that the sparkle was a distraction layered over a complex concept full of cracks and mold, and the day you see beyond the glitter for the first time is the day you officially grow up, no going back.”
― Sara Raasch, The Nightmare Before Kissmas

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