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“She thought, as she would often for many years, of the photograph from that day, with the one golden feather inside it: Was it a portrait of her, or her daughter? Was she the bird trying to batter its way out, or was she the cage?”
― Little Fires Everywhere
― Little Fires Everywhere
“I think you can’t imagine. Why anyone would choose a different life from the one you’ve got. Why anyone might want something other than a big house with a big lawn, a fancy car, a job in an office. Why anyone would choose anything different than what you’d choose.” Now it was her turn to study Mrs. Richardson, as if the key to understanding her were coded into her face. “It terrifies you. That you missed out on something. That you gave up something you didn’t know you wanted.”
― Little Fires Everywhere
― Little Fires Everywhere
“She had never seen an adult cry like that, with such an animal sound. Recklessly. As if there were nothing more to be lost. For years afterward, she would sometimes wake in the night, heart thumping, thinking she’d heard that agonized cry again.”
― Little Fires Everywhere
― Little Fires Everywhere
“This was what would haunt Mrs. McCullough most: that Mirabelle hadn’t cried out when Bebe had reached into the crib and lifted her up and taken her away. Despite everything—despite the homemade food and the toys and the late nights and the love, so much love, more love than Mrs. McCullough could have imagined possible—despite it all, she still had felt Bebe’s arms were a safe place, a place she belonged.”
― Little Fires Everywhere
― Little Fires Everywhere
“It strikes me that while all this judgment goes on, the options available to women become fewer and fewer. I’m not even (just) talking about the right to choose—across the U.S., women have less access to birth control, health care, reproductive education, and post-partum support. So we give women less information about their bodies and reproduction, less control over their bodies, and less support during and after pregnancy—and then we criticize them fiercely for whatever they end up doing.”
― Little Fires Everywhere
― Little Fires Everywhere
Hanna’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Hanna’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
149 books
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5 friends
388 books
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8 friends
35 books
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4 friends
518 books
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3 friends
23 books
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7 friends
133 books
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6 friends
84 books
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2 friends
72 books
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2 friends
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