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read in December 2018
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This book was a surprising last-minute super enjoyable read - I honestly didn't think I'd be into a fantasy French Revolution, but I was so here for it. So much happened that I couldn't summarise it for Steve, but it didn't feel rushed. and political
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A long-legged creature made of frost and starlight crouched before the horse, its eyes reflecting the empty moon and its back covered in a thousand wings, all glitteringly iridescent like a beetle's, clicking and whirring in terrible
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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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“What feminism means for me is simply that women, like men, are complete human beings with limitless possibilities.”
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“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”
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