Amelia Halgren

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Amelia’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven

Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman

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Being a tourist, I was beginning to see, meant being infantilized much of the time. All power is contextual.

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Amelia’s Quotes

“Just because you don’t experience prejudice in your everyday doesn’t stop it from existing for the rest of us.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

tags: prejudice

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“But what you give up you can learn to live without, even if it causes you heartbreak at the start.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

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“Your voice is a weapon. Never forget that.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

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“The things we fear the most are often the things we should fear the least. It’s irrational, but it’s what makes us human. And if we’re able to conquer those fears, then there is nothing we’re not capable of.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

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“A home isn't always the house we live in. It's also the people we choose to surround ourselves with.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

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