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Lois is Currently Reading

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The Whispers

by Ashley Audrain (Goodreads Author)

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Our Little Lies

by Sue Watson (Goodreads Author)

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Dead Silence

by S.A. Barnes (Goodreads Author)

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Book cover for The Haitians: A Decolonial History

The Haitians: A Decolonial History by Jean Casimir

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She asserts that individuals’ single stories are dangerous not only because the storyteller (whether scholar, journalist, banker, or officer of the state) acts on the assumption of the truth, without any parentheses, of what the story ...more

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Lois ’s Quotes

“Nobody who's lived an anyway decent amount of life remembers everything.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

tags: life, memory

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“He leapt through the air balletically”
― Vanessa Walters, The Nigerwife

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“I make her leave on her stockings and high heels. I am a freak. I cannot bear the human being in present state, I must be fooled. the psychiatrists must have a word for it, and I have a word for the psychiatrists.”
― Charles Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man

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“To overcome the need to be productive, as a lot of productivity is destructive.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

tags: peace, productivity, wholeness

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“It’s the same as Scots English,” she explained. “It’s not your tongue, it was forced on you, and like your whisky you’ve blended it into something that’s your own. Anyone who hears a Scotsman speak recognizes the sound. We’ve made this language that was imposed on us ours too. When I speak, West Africa is on my tongue, Taino is on my tongue. Castilians have their Spanish, and we have our own.”
― Adriana Herrera, A Caribbean Heiress in Paris: A Novel

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