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I couldn’t blame my mother who introduced me to the salon chair. She didn’t know it would become a life sentence.
“fucked her when she was too out of it to consent, but that was before consent got fashionable. Those kinds of incidents used to be considered “funny.” Even “hilarious.” The worse you felt, the louder you laughed. The laughter was necessary because it put you back in charge. You didn’t remember, so you created a memory you hoped was the truth.”
― Apples Never Fall
― Apples Never Fall
“I am not sure love unshown is really love at all. What good does caring for a person do if you're never there when they need you?”
― A Lady for a Duke
― A Lady for a Duke
“remembering all the glorious moments, one after the other after the other, her children’s ecstatic faces looking for their parents in the stands, looking for their approval, looking for their love, knowing it was there, knowing—she hoped they knew this—that it would always be there, even long after she and Stan were gone, because love like that was infinite.”
― Apples Never Fall
― Apples Never Fall
“The world teaches men to listen only to what they want to hear and women to tell it to them.”
― A Lady for a Duke
― A Lady for a Duke
“I would say"—he shaped the words close to her mouth, as if each of them was its own kiss, a private prayer—"I love you as a man loves a woman, but we both know that love is not bound by such narrow terms. So instead let me simply tell you that I love you. I love you with the unfading flame of my friendship. With every drop of ardour in my blood. I love you with my soul, as some reserve their faith for absent gods. I love you as I believe in what is right and hope for what is good. I love you with everything I am and ever was—and if you will only let me, with every day that comes, and every self that I could ever be.”
― A Lady for a Duke
― A Lady for a Duke
Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon
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Our next readathon will be July 10-11, 2026. We'll start reading at 8pm Eastern Time on Friday April 10th, and end Saturday July 11th at 8pm EDT. ...more
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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Writers of Color Book Club
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— last activity Mar 16, 2018 09:30AM
This group is reading and discussing Tar Baby as a read along in honor of Black History Month!
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