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"giiiirl I am reading run at the cup by thehomelybadger and it’s actually perfect I’m sorry Grace for not listening to you immediately. heated rivalry WISHES it were this" — Jan 19, 2026 05:03PM
"giiiirl I am reading run at the cup by thehomelybadger and it’s actually perfect I’m sorry Grace for not listening to you immediately. heated rivalry WISHES it were this" — Jan 19, 2026 05:03PM
“There was something abstract and gentle about the experience of being ignored—a feeling of being spared, a known impossibility of anything happening—that was consonant with my understanding of love. In theory, of course, I knew that love could be reciprocated. It was a thing that happened, often, to other people. But I was unlike other people in so many ways.”
― Either/Or
― Either/Or
“I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why.”
― Either/Or
― Either/Or
“They say that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and I can only imagine the conversation between Eve and Skywoman: "Sister, you got the short end of the stick...”
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“It was a strange thing how people acted as if having a kid was the best thing that could happen to anyone, even though actual parents seemed to experience most of their children's actual childhoods as an annoyance, which they compensated for by bossing them around. People with kids had to go to work every day, at boring, reliable jobs. On the plus side, work was an acceptable way to escape your children, without seeming to want to. The children, having no such escape, lived through long stretches of boredom and powerlessness, punctuated by occasional treats that they overvalued and freaked out over because the rest of their lives were so empty.”
― Either/Or
― Either/Or
“...adults acted as though trying to go anywhere or achieve anything was a frivolous dream, a luxury, compared to the real work of having kids and making money to pay for the kids. Nobody ever explained what was admirable about having the kids, or why it was the default course of action for every single human being. If you ever asked why any particular person had had a kid, or what good a particular kid was, people treated it as a blasphemy-- as if you were saying they should be dead, or the kid should be dead. It was is there was no way to ask what the plan had been, without implying that someone should be dead.”
― Either/Or
― Either/Or
Aubrey’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Children's, Classics, Cookbooks, Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Poetry, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Thriller, Young-adult, Nonfiction, and butch-femme
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