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“Sometimes you have to skate through life, sliding on the surface because it's too hard to feel. So you keep going. Keep busy. Fill the days, hours, and minutes, hoping to come out on the other side. Stopping to try to understand why causes too much pain.”

Book:How to Stand Up to a Dictator

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How to Stand Up to a Dictator

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Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa, born on October 2, 1963, is a renowned Filipino journalist. She is known for her contributions to press freedom and democratic oversight, serving as the executive editor of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Ressa has played a crucial role in promoting transparency and exposing corruption, her work having a profound impact on Philippine society. more

“I’d learned long ago that people had angles. Some were long and complicated, a maze you’d never unravel until they had you thoroughly trapped. Others were painfully obvious. Two turns to the truth. And still others carefully masked the turn, hid it so you didn’t see it until it was too late, and you were too broken to turn around and retreat.”

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Book:By Blood & Blade

Source: By Blood & Blade

“Mordicia was a good man :-:”

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Author:Airy

“I wish that person were real. I wish he existed somewhere other than my memories.”

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Book:Glass Sword

Source: Glass Sword

“When I throw back my head and howl People (women mostly) say But you've always done what you want, You always get your way - A perfectly vile and foul Inversion of all that's been. What the old ratbags mean Is I've never done what I don't. So the shit in the shuttered chateau Who does his five hundred words Then parts out the rest of the day Between bathing and booze and birds Is far off as ever, but so Is that spectacled schoolteaching sod (Six kids, and the wife in pod, And her parents coming to stay)... Life is an immobile, locked, Three-handed struggle between Your wants, the world's for you, and (worse) The unbeatable slow machine That brings what you'll get. Blocked, They strain round a hollow stasis Of havings-to, fear, faces. Days sift down it constantly. Years. --The Life with the Hole in It”