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“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
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“Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.”
― Flowers in the Attic
― Flowers in the Attic
“If the stars twinkled more than usual on any given night, it meant that the angels in heaven were happy and were flitting across the doors of heaven; and since stars were merely holes ventilating heaven, the twinkling came from the angels flitting past the holes that admitted air into the holy home of God.”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
“Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
“Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
Lisa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lisa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
162 books
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46 friends
1,606 books
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167 friends
143 books
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63 friends
8 books
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45 friends
34 books
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103 friends
33 books
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44 friends
85 books
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32 friends
403 books
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46 friends
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