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The Murderbot Diaries

Martha Wells

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Matthew Swift, urban sorcerer, Blue Electric Angels, Midnight Mayor of London.

In this new time, the magic is no longer of the vine and the tree, magic now focuses itself where there is most life, and that life burns neon.

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When you dive headfirst into female writing and emerge, months later, glowing and reborn, imbued with passion and depth and a profound love and empathy for all female experience ever, wanting to not read anything by male writers for a long time because it’s so very comfortable to have a female voice, besides your own, to carry with you all the time.

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I found a library that looks like it could be Oxford’s sister hidden right in my town. I practically started crying walking in. So much beauty and books.

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Scotland in the Fall by Daniel Casson

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29.01.17

“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to.” ― Susan Cain, Quiet

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finding nemo remake only in theaters december 21

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omg I’m doing research for one of projects for college, and apparently, girls learn better when they’re in an all girls class, but boys learn even worse when they’re in an all boys class, because all the negative things become even stronger of there are no girls to act as “buffer”

get rid of the boys and let girl learn in peace, i couldn’t care less about them

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“I spread myself around: my whole little universe in crumbs; at the center, what?”

— Roland Barthes, from Complete Works: 1942 - 1961; “Roland Barthes” (via existential-celestial)

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“When you believe without knowing you believe that you are damaged at your core, you also believe that you need to hide that damage for anyone to love you. You walk around ashamed of being yourself. You try hard to make up for the way you look, walk, feel. Decisions are agonizing because if you, the person who makes the decision, is damaged, then how can you trust what you decide? You doubt your own impulses so you become masterful at looking outside yourself for comfort. You become an expert at finding experts and programs, at striving and trying hard and then harder to change yourself, but this process only reaffirms what you already believe about yourself – that your needs and choices cannot be trusted, and left to your own devices you are out of control.”

— Geneen Roth, Women, Food and God (via ourwakingsoules)

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BOOKS READ IN 2018: All Systems Red by Martha Wells

I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been well over 35,000 hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably, I don’t know, a little under 35,00 hours of movies, serials, books, plays, and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.

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Surprisingly cozy for such a grand view

via reddit

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take a rest

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American literature:  Does success have meaning?

French literature:  Does love have meaning?

Russian literature:  Does suffering have meaning?

German literature:  No.