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The Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass, #0.1-0.5)

by Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)

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read in October 2020

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" “Her beauty was a weapon—one she kept honed—but it could also be a vulnerability.”

“Come on, Sardothien…If you’re done liberating slaves and destroying pirate cities, then let’s go home.” (Sam)

“Sighing, she slipped into her room and bolted the door. “Her beauty was a weapon—one she kept honed—but it could also be a vulnerability.”

“Come on, Sardothien…If you’re done liberating slaves and destroying pirate cities, then let’s go home.” (Sam)

“Sighing, she slipped into her room and bolted the door. After a moment, she shoved the ancient chest of drawers in front of it, too. Not for her own safety. Oh, no. It was for the safety of whatever fool tried to break in—and would then find himself split open from navel to nose just to satisfy a wandering assassin’s boredom.”

“The girl’s eyes flashed to hers. They were ringed with gold—stunning. Even with the bruises, the girl was alluring. Like wildfire, or a summer storm swept in off the Gulf of Oro.”

“The gods had vanished, her mother had once claimed. But had they? Had it been some god who had visited tonight, clothed in the skin of a battered young woman?”

“Where do men find it in themselves to do such monstrous things? How do they find it acceptable?” (Ansel)

“I hoped she would learn to face her pain—that she’d learn to endure it. If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it—to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger. But Ansel let her pain become hate, and let it consumer her until she became something else entirely—a person I don’t think she ever wished to be.” (Mute Master)

“She leaned close. ‘My name is Wind,’ she whispered. ‘And Rain. And Bone and Dust. My name is a snippet of a half-remembered song.’ He chuckled, a low, delightful sound. She was drunk, and silly, and so full of the glory of being young and alive and in the capital of the world that she could hardly contain herself. ‘I have no name,’ she purred. ‘I am whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be.’” (Celaena)

“She inhaled the damp morning air, letting it wash through her. Seated on the roof ledge, she felt wonderfully insignificant—a mere speck in the vastness of the great city. And yet all of it was hers for the taking. Yes, the party had been delightful, but there was more to the world than that. Bigger things, more beautiful things, more real things. Her future was hers, and she had three trunks of gold hidden in her room that would solidify it. She could make of her life what she wanted.”

“‘Deep down…I’m a coward…And I’m scared. I’m scared all the time. Always.’
‘I get scared, too…You want to hear something ridiculous? Whenever I’m scared out of my wits, I tell myself: My name is Sam Cortland…and I will not be afraid. I’ve been doing it for years.’” (Celaena and Sam)

“She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. And then she would remember how it had felt to be loved, when the world had held nothing but possibility. No matter what they did to her, they could never take that away. She would not break…She squared her shoulders. Straightened her spine. ‘My name is Celaena Sardothien,’ she whispered, ‘and I will not be afraid.’” ...more "

Oct 20, 2020 10:51AM · see review

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The Energy System: Technology, Economics, Markets, and Policy (Mit Press)

by Travis Bradford

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“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?”
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“For avoiding life.”
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“It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I’d known, maybe I’d have kept tighter hold of them, and not let unseen tides pull us apart.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

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