Ruth

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The Water Lies

by Amy Meyerson (Goodreads Author)

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Patient 7

by Sabrina Wade (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

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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

2396 likes

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

2087 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

3733 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

1634 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

1222 likes

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