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No matter how much I’ve hardened myself against her comfort, it doesn’t get any easier. It’s her trick, giving me a glimpse of her potential. I’ve always understood the impulse of wanting a mother, but when I’ve felt it, I’ve always
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“I tried to tell him that the bigots and the racists had always been there, and he said he’d honestly never seen them like this, that he never thought they could be like this, and I said yes, I know. I said that’s how privilege works.”
― A Very Large Expanse of Sea
― A Very Large Expanse of Sea
“When a community is built on removing access to information—from disempowering its people—there is no one to save them when a bigger threat rises. The first civilizations to fall are the ones where no one speaks truth to power, where every voice must be part of a chorus or be silenced. In our histories from the time before our nomadic clans, we know well that those who do not embrace the diversity of their communities are doomed to die out.”
― The Poison Daughter
― The Poison Daughter
“Men are never selfish. They’re smart. Women are always selfish. You want to be single? Selfish. You’re a wife and mother and do anything other than dote on your husband and children? Selfish. I want you and your sisters to learn to take that word as a compliment. Anyone who says that to you is trying to discourage you from doing what you want. That’s how you know you’re doing something right.”
― Play Nice
― Play Nice
“No matter how much I’ve hardened myself against her comfort, it doesn’t get any easier. It’s her trick, giving me a glimpse of her potential. I’ve always understood the impulse of wanting a mother, but when I’ve felt it, I’ve always imagined some alchemy of generic soft hands and tight hugs and the scent of rosebushes. What I want is the idea of a mother, not the woman standing beside me.”
― The Poison Daughter
― The Poison Daughter
“There are patterns to life…Rhythms. It is so easy, while trapped in just the one life, to imagine that times of sadness or tragedy or failure or fear are a result of that particular existence. That it is a by-product of living a certain way, rather than simply living. I mean, it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can’t have one without the other. Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you’re in.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
Ashley’s 2025 Year in Books
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21 friends
178 books
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332 books
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454 books
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514 books
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134 books
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38 books
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