Ruth

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Ruth is Currently Reading

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The Night Watcher (Callie Munro Thriller #1)

by Tariq Ashkanani (Goodreads Author)

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Allegedly

by Tiffany D. Jackson (Goodreads Author)

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Nov 28, 2025 06:27PM

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Azizam: A Woman's Flight from Silence and Flame

by Mahnaz Badihian (Goodreads Author)

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Ruth’s Notes & Highlights

Circe by Madeline Miller

14 notes & 82 highlights

However gold he shines, do not forget his fire.

How to Love a Jamaican

by Alexia Arthurs

7 notes & 93 highlights

Ruth’s Quotes

“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: sylvia-plath, ted-hughes, the-bell-jar

2358 likes

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: friendship, love

1610 likes

“A single metaphor can give birth to love.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

895 likes

“Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: babyghosts, insanity, misunderstandings, sisters

1211 likes

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: neurosis

3696 likes

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