Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
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Last annotated on July 12, 2016
As an affectionate and attentive nephew I considered it my duty to eat for him as well as for myself, which I did conscientiously.Read more at location 128   • Delete this highlight
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Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2) by Veronica Roth
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Last annotated on February 29, 2016
By the time we leave, I have red lips and curled eyelashes, and I’m wearing a bright red dress. And there’s a knife strapped to the inside of my knee. This all makes perfect sense.Read more at location 4030   • Delete this highlight
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I Shall Wear Midnight: (Discworld Novel 38) (Discworld series) by Terry Pratchett
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What kind of witch can look after everybody if she’s not sensible enough to look after herself? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes. That means: Who guards the guards, that does,’ Preston went on. ‘So who watches the witches? Who cares for the people who care for the people?Read more at location 4055   • Delete this highlight
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You’ve taken the first step.’ ‘There’s a second step?’ said Tiffany. ‘No; there’s another first step. Every step is a first step if it’s a step in the right direction.’Read more at location 4827   • Delete this highlight
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Wintersmith: (Discworld Novel 35) (Discworld series) by Terry Pratchett
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Last annotated on September 6, 2015
Tiffany yawned. ‘What day is this?’ ‘Tuesday,’ said Granny Weatherwax. ‘Mmm … what’s a Tuesday?’Read more at location 3484   • Delete this highlight
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A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32) (Discworld series) by Terry Pratchett
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Last annotated on September 5, 2015
Tiffany accidentally heard them discussing it after she had gone to bed that night. It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.Read more at location 200   • Delete this highlight
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Knowing things is magical, if other people don’t know them.’Read more at location 1260   • Delete this highlight
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Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colours. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.Read more at location 4105   • Delete this highlight
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
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He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?Read more at location 2359   • Delete this highlight
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But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction – indeed, in some sense was the destruction – of a hierarchical society. In a world in which everyone worked short hours, had enough to eat, lived in a house with a bathroom and a refrigerator, and possessed a motor-car or even an aeroplane, the most obvious and perhaps the most important form of inequality would already have disappeared. If it once became general, wealth would confer no distinction. It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.Read more at location 3021   • Delete this highlight
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was by continuous warfare. The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labour power without producing anything that can be consumed. A Floating Fortress, for example, has locked up in it the labour that would build several hundred cargo ships. Ultimately it is scrapped as obsolete, never having brought any material benefit to anybody, and with further enormous labours another Floating Fortress is built.Read more at location 3038   • Delete this highlight
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There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.Read more at location 3077   • Delete this highlight
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There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern. These causes do not operate singly, and as a rule all four of them are present in some degree. A ruling class which could guard against all of them would remain in power permanently.Read more at location 3266   • Delete this highlight
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Star Wars: Darth Bane - Path of Destruction by Drew Karpyshyn
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Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory my chains are broken.Read more at location 1390   • Delete this highlight
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) by J.K. Rowling
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Last annotated on April 5, 2015
be trouble,’ spat Uncle Vernon. Harry sat there, white-faced and furious, staring at UncleRead more at location 276   • Undo deletion
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Animal Farm (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which.Read more at location 1284   • Delete this highlight
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
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—And what do you want me to help you with if I may ask? said Allan. There are only two things I can do better than most people. One of them is to make vodka from goats’ milk, and the other is to put together an atom bomb.Read more at location 5344   • Delete this highlight
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