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Publishers Weekly named this a best book of 2023 and called it a "delightfully queer and furiously feminist eat-the-rich historical fantasy" and I don't think I've seen a book described so amazingly since "lesbian necromancers in space" (Gideon the N
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“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
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― Lady Knight
“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
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“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
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― The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
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― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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