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Hamnet and Judith

by Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author)

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Romantic Hero

by Kirsty Greenwood (Goodreads Author)

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My Person

by Téa Mutonji

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Danya’s Quotes

“What is belonging?” we ask. She says, “Where loneliness ends.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

tags: belonging, loneliness

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“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
― Chinua Achebe

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“untold stories shape people’s lives both when they are withheld & when they are revealed.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

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“We'll never know exactly why we are, what we are, and so on. All you can do is follow your path all the way to the wilderness, and then you continue along because that's what must be.”
― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death

tags: death, life

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“She knows that the woman is not in Brooklyn, standing on Flatbush Avenue, but home. She went crazy in America, her mind halting in the loneliness, anxiety, and the soundlessness of things falling apart: a sweet surrender. What a relief it must be, Patsy thinks, to stare into the eyes of sorrow and break without the pretense of holding it together.”
― Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn, Patsy

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