Michelle

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Michelle’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (523)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1208)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
manga‎ (286)
graphic-novels‎ (253)
fantasy‎ (193)
young-adult‎ (134)

science-fiction‎ (72)
non-fiction‎ (65)
horror‎ (61)
children-s‎ (51)
humor‎ (51)
mystery‎ (42)
classics‎ (41)
short-stories‎ (39)

biography‎ (38)
romance‎ (35)
historical-fiction‎ (34)
japanese-lit‎ (33)
postmodern‎ (26)
crap‎ (17)
favorites‎ (17)
thriller‎ (16)

psych‎ (12)
play‎ (7)
essays‎ (5)
science‎ (3)
poetry‎ (2)
wishlist‎ (0)

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Michelle’s Quotes

“I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.”
― Mel Brooks

tags: bullshit, humor, profanity, shit, vulgarity

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“We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.”
― Lloyd Alexander

tags: favorite-books, favorites, reading

356 likes

“Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after the kids, but a lot of times it’s the other way around.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

tags: family, mental-health

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“In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

tags: humor, memoir, young_adult

874 likes

“We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which 'now' was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents' have insufficient 'now' to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile. ... We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

tags: future

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