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Book cover for Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

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A few minutes later we were in Greenberg’s cramped office. “You have a lot,” he said, paging through the same printed list of elements I’d handed Oppenheim the day before. Then he looked up and asked, “Can I hear the tape?” I slid my phone ...more

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“I feared, at times, that I had lost my imagination, because I felt boxed in my role as victim. But when I was trapped, I learned I could still move internally. When I felt depressed, I wrote and imagined my future down to the coffee bean. The children's books I will illustrate, the chickens I will have in my yard, the soft cotton linens, the sauce-dipped wooden spoons on the counter. The need for it to come true according to plan was not important. The act of imagining was.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

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“God had never withheld love to teach me a lesson.”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

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“It is a beautiful country depending on where you look.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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“His brain reeled at the thought of the true population of the universe, the three-dimensional infinitude of their territory, and the unchronicled aeons of their past; but his heart became steadier than it had ever been.”
― C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet

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“I see now how the lord of the silent world has bent you. There are laws that all hnau know, of pity and straight dealing and shame and the like, and one of these is the love of kindred. He has taught you to break all of them except this one, which is not one of the greatest laws; this one he has bent till it becomes folly and has set it up, thus bent, to be a little, blind Oyarsa in your brain. And now you can do nothing but obey it, though if we ask you why it is a law you give no other reason for it than for all the other and greater laws which it drives you to disobey.”
― C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet

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