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favorites‎ (58)
fantasy‎ (345)
science-fiction‎ (175)
queer‎ (172)
owned-books‎ (145)
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horror‎ (128)
year-2023‎ (125)

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year-2022‎ (90)
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asian‎ (74)
historical-fiction‎ (72)
black‎ (68)
graphic-novel‎ (63)
poc‎ (63)
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feminism‎ (59)
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Sarah is Currently Reading

Sarah is currently reading

The Queen of Sorrow (The Queens of Renthia #3)

by Sarah Beth Durst (Goodreads Author)

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May 19, 2026 05:18AM

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This Place: 150 Years Retold

by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

bookshelves: anticolonialism, graphic-novel, indigenous, poc, currently-reading

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(page 110 of 287)
— May 18, 2026 08:19PM

May 18, 2026 07:05PM

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Poems of Akhmatova

by Anna Akhmatova

bookshelves: owned-books, poetry, russia, author-recommended, currently-reading

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(page 74 of 192)
— Apr 30, 2026 07:20PM

Apr 29, 2026 04:32PM

Sarah’s Quotes

“Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun.”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

tags: mahit, six-direction

76 likes

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

tags: chapter-24, life, will-herondale

8970 likes

“They say you can’t go home again, but of course you can. It’s just that when you get there, somebody may have repainted and changed the fixtures around.”
― T. Kingfisher, A House With Good Bones

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“At some point, you have to accept the fact that any movement creates waves, and the only other option is to lie still and learn nothing.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

tags: cause-and-effect

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“It is difficult—it is very difficult, to befriend where you wish to consume, to find those who, when they ask Do I have you still, when they end a letter with Yours, mean it in any substantive way.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

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