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“I have a new respect for grief and a new respect for myself as a traveller in it. I used to be frightened of loving people because I thought I wouldn't survive losing them, but now I see that making friends with grief, accepting it as part of being human, will liberate me to love even more, and that the love is always worth it”
― A Manual for Heartache
― A Manual for Heartache
“All this time, I'd assumed that being a doctor meant performing miracles. Fixing bodies. Saving lives. I had hardly considered the flip side of that coin: that it also meant looking a patient's family in the eye and telling them to say their last goodbyes. That it meant staring down the permanence of death over and over again, until it stopped feeling like something to be prevented at all costs and instead became something to be occasionally embraced.”
― On Rotation
― On Rotation
“Romance novels sell an idealized fantasy that we all want to experience. They may be fiction, but there is a reason why so many people connect to love stories. Because that’s the type of feeling we want to give, and want to receive.”
― Dating Dr. Dil
― Dating Dr. Dil
“I am humanity. He crawled. I am humanity. He fell. I am humanity. He got up.”
― The Infinite Sea
― The Infinite Sea
“but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical
dilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the point
my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too beautiful to have thrown back on my face
my love is too sanctified to have thrown back on my face
my love is too magic to have thrown back on my face
my love is too saturday nite to have thrown back on my face
my love is too complicated to have thrown back on my face
my love is too music to have thrown back on my face”
― For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
dilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the point
my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too beautiful to have thrown back on my face
my love is too sanctified to have thrown back on my face
my love is too magic to have thrown back on my face
my love is too saturday nite to have thrown back on my face
my love is too complicated to have thrown back on my face
my love is too music to have thrown back on my face”
― For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Ruthie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ruthie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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167 friends
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458 books
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102 friends
495 books
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853 friends
1,422 books
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1,541 books
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360 friends
947 books
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82 friends
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Favorite Genres
African American, Art, Book Club, Chick-lit, Ebooks, Fiction, Horror, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Romance, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, and Young-adult
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