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“Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.”
― Sonny's Blues
― Sonny's Blues
“In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“When Obama was elected president, a prisoner said “one black man in the White House doesn’t make up for one million black men in the Big House.”
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“It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
#ClassicsCommunity 2021 Reading Challenge
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Lou’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lou’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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