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who could determine what counted as theft when museums and countries and civilisations saw the spoils of conquest as rightfully earned?
— PORTRAIT OF A THIEF by grace d. li
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tea time reads book club august pick → portrait of a thief by grace d. li
they had all come here for different reasons. they had all chosen to stay. he had spent so many years thinking that nothing good could ever last, but—maybe this could. his crew was here, had chosen this and him and a future that felt out of a dream.