Amie

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Amie is Currently Reading

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The ADHD Field Guide for Adults

by Cate Osborn

bookshelves: adhd, nonfiction, self-help, currently-reading

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Sorry I Haven't Texted You Back

by Alicia Cook (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: mental-health, poetry, currently-reading

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Apr 22, 2026 08:43PM

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The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

by Audre Lorde

bookshelves: feminist, lgbtq, memoirs-autobiography-biography, poetry, racism, social-justice, currently-reading

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“I didn’t set out to discover Truth. I was simply hungry and digging deep in the back of the fridge and boom! there it was. And I’ve got to tell you, the Truth was tasty.  ”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

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“I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.”
― Amy Neftzger

tags: aging, chocolate, food, wrinkles

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“Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?"

"Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: food

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“You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life.”
― Joanne Harris, Blackberry Wine

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“All the little quirks that make even the most barren, frigid places beautiful, that make a tiny gray dot on the map the one place you'll always call home, no matter where your glamorous, boring, adventurous, average, ridiculous, impossible, epic, romantic, bacon-infused life leads you.”
― Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet

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