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The Fire Next Time

by James Baldwin

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Brenda’s Notes & Highlights

Tilt: A Novel by Emma Pattee

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It’s like life is this powerful river, of doing laundry and buying groceries and driving to work and scrolling on my phone, and the weekends are so short.

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Brenda’s Quotes

“Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

tags: hypocrisy, kindness, offensive, politeness, tact

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“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: belief, life-and-death, truth

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“Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

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“I feel like you can look inside me and see all the places I am odd or unusual and fit your heart around them, for you are odd and unusual in just the same way. We are the same.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

tags: clockwork-princess, tessa-gray, will-herondale

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“Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water. And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home, and you have cried yourself to sleep enough times that you are down to your last two percent; but nothing is infinite, not even loss. You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day you are going to find yourself again.”
― Finn Butler

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