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3 things that will always get me to read a book:
Alexander the Great
tricksters
well-developed moral dilemmas

"And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest of all. The white race believes that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are."

"It was still the south, and the devil had long nimble fingers"

"The land she worked and tilled had been Indian land. She knew the white men bragged about the efficiency of the massacres […]Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood."

I don't fucking care, Arrian, I'll skip every single description of a battle since now on and finish this book tonight

Honestly if I didn't love Alexander so much I don't know if I'd labour through this. Arrian is so fucking dry. And so interested in war and strategy and field manoeuvres and every single little commander's name. And I am so not. Give me Mary Renault back