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All the Colors of the Dark

by Chris Whitaker (欧宝娱乐 Author)

bookshelves: 2025, adult-fiction, mystery-thriller, currently-reading

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Jan 20, 2025 09:16PM

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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

by Jonathan Blitzer

bookshelves: history, politics, south-america, 2025, currently-reading

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Jan 06, 2025 02:19PM

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Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories

by Amitav Ghosh

bookshelves: 2024, anthro-culture, audio, currentevents, history, currently-reading

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Dec 04, 2024 08:47AM

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: atticus-finch, courage

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world

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“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book鈥攖hat string of confused, alien ciphers鈥攕hivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

tags: inspiration

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“Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

tags: angel-poems, angels, beauty, famous-quotes-from-classic-books, grace, haiku, haikus, healing, inspirational-quotes, national-poetry-month, poems-by-aberjhani, poetry, spirituality, wings, world-poetry-day

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