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Elwood [P. Dowd] played his part. He showed me you could be crazy and still be human, still be valuable, and still be loved. Elwood offered me a kind of hope that wasn't bullshit and, in doing so, helped me to see that hope is the correct response to the strange, often terrifying miracle of consciousness. Hope is not easy or cheap. It is true.

—The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

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#65 of 2025

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“I dwell in possibility” - Emily Dickinson

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BOOKS I'VE READ IN 2025 -> The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins ★★★★★

I think there’s a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you’ve stepped across the line into evil, and it’s your life’s challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line.

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"Someone has to care," she said, starting down the hallway. "Too few people care, these days."

I will remember those who have been forgotten.

I can't defeat him. I've got to change him.

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JOMPBPC • July 15 • Couldn’t Put Down

Network Effect by Martha Wells

I’m blaming my need of a very large cold brew this morning on the fact that I had to force myself to put this down and go to sleep super late last night. All of the Murderbot books just suck you in to the fast paced story, but this particular one has gripped me for the last 24 hours, reading it at any moment I can.

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I can’t be normal, so I’ll be something else.

Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

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Have you read the Locke Lamora books? I have read the first one. I really liked it so I would love to continue the series one day.

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#63 of 2025

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My Reading List → Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel."

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BOOKS I'VE READ IN 2025 -> The Hunger Games: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins ★★★★☆

That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years.

But there are much worse games to play.

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I think literature consumes her the same way surgery has swallowed me. She sees the world through the lens of it: she is to stories like I am to meat.

The Spirit Bares its Teeth-Andrew Joseph White

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christmas present to myself (but i was away from home until now). it's pretty

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#62 of 2025

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LITERATURE SERIES: Jane Austen

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ― Jane Austen