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Book cover for Babylon's Ashes (Expanse, #6)
“Consider the Afghan,” Marco said. “Lords of the Graveyard of Empires. Even Alexander the Great couldn’t conquer these people. Every great power who attempted it exhausted themselves and failed.”
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Margaret Atwood
“We’re stretched thin, all of us; we vibrate; we quiver, we’re always on the alert. Reign of terror, they used to say, but terror does not exactly reign. Instead it paralyzes. Hence the unnatural quiet.”
Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

Martha Wells
“You know that thing humans do where they think they’re being completely logical and they absolutely are not being logical at all, and on some level they know that, but can’t stop? Apparently it can happen to SecUnits, too.”
Martha Wells, Network Effect

“They do it because they can.”
Naomi Alderman, The Power

Michelle Obama
“His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.”
Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Any asshole can make a mean joke. It’s harder work to reach out further for the joke that’s funny and can’t hurt anybody.”
Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

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