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Legenda: The Real Women Behind the Myths That Shaped Europe

by Janina Ramírez

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"Getting bored with the repetitive stories of religious loonies." — Dec 31, 2025 10:43AM

Dec 31, 2025 10:43AM

“And what if it were only a story?” said Mrs. May quickly, “so long as it was a good story? Keep your sense of wonder, child, and don’t be so literal. Anything we haven’t experienced for ourselves sounds like a story. All we can ever do is sift the evidence.”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers

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“He said it was wife’s idea to name their daughter after him but I didn’t believe him. Could have been worse, I decided. It could have been Nigella.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes

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“Americans, who intellectually knew the rest of the world existed but didn’t really believe it.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, False Value

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“I’d been warned in advance, so I’d given it some thought. When it was my turn and I stood up and called for life, liberty and peace and managed to sit down before I added a hard-boiled egg to the list.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping

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“CO19, the Met’s firearms unit, whose unofficial motto is, “Guns don’t kill people, we kill people with guns.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Whispers Under Ground

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