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"Somehow I've never read this and for some reason I just decided to. I'm only 18 pages in and I'm already incredibly disturbed by how relevant it is today. Amazon, Apple, Meta and Google are clearly the four ministries. Fuck. (PS, I really wish Amazon had never bought Goodreads. cry)" — Nov 20, 2025 01:18AM
"Somehow I've never read this and for some reason I just decided to. I'm only 18 pages in and I'm already incredibly disturbed by how relevant it is today. Amazon, Apple, Meta and Google are clearly the four ministries. Fuck. (PS, I really wish Amazon had never bought Goodreads. cry)" — Nov 20, 2025 01:18AM
“Oh, well, I suppose the Godking will conquer them someday and make them all slaves. But I wish I could see the sea again. There used to be little octopuses in the tide pools, and if you shouted ‘Boo!’ at them they turned all white.—There
“If a wolf attacks his sheep, the shepherd kills the wolf, but he eats the sheep when he's hungry.”
― The Enemy
― The Enemy
“that is what migrations and relocations do to us: when you leave your home for unknown shores, you don’t simply carry on as before; a part of you dies inside so that another part can start all over again.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women - except, of course —those who will end up, you know, like, paying for their own rape ‘kit ‘n’ stuff, But for everybody else, it’s a win-win. Unless you’re a gay woman who wants to marry your partner of 20 years - whatever. But for most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us. Unless you believe in evolution. You know - actually, I take it back. The whole thing’s a disaster.”
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“But history does matter. There are lines connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Serbs and the Rwandans. They are obviously morbid. Really, how much genocide can one sentence handle? You get the point. Besides, my grandparents’ story deserves to be told, regardless of their nationalities.”
― The Sandcastle Girls
― The Sandcastle Girls
“Sometimes family trauma skips a generation altogether and redoubles its hold on the following one. You may encounter grandchildren who silently shoulder the hurts and sufferings of their grandparents.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
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