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“My Tate just graduated from high school.” A tight cringe worked its way down my spine at the way she emphasized my age, glancing pointedly at Sam. He might have been twice my size, but twenty-one is only three years older than eighteen.
What is it with so many romance books making the men giants and the women tiny?
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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
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“The scene would give white people a chance to see themselves as complicit in cultural appropriation, but the takeaway for marginalized audiences would be different. It could tell them, "You're not crazy. Your physical and intellectual labor really has been stolen and repackaged for profit. It's real.”
― You Got Anything Stronger?
― You Got Anything Stronger?
“But it only takes a doubt. A drop of ink falls into a clear glass of water and clouds the whole thing. So the moment after I realised I wasn't perfectly well was the moment I realised I was still very ill indeed.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“I am free and deserving simply because I exist . I don't have to do all these other things to be worthy of respect and safety.”
― You Got Anything Stronger?
― You Got Anything Stronger?
“I would propose that to worry people are desensitized is to assume the jurors, and most people, were ever sensitive to Black pain to begin with.”
― You Got Anything Stronger?
― You Got Anything Stronger?
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Ashley’s 2025 Year in Books
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