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Leigh is Currently Reading

Leigh R is currently reading

Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

by Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 21, 2026 11:30AM

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A Letter to the Luminous Deep (The Sunken Archive, #1)

by Sylvie Cathrall (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 22, 2025 03:19PM

“It's a sighted, hearing classroom, in a sighted, hearing school, in a sighted, hearing society. They designed this environment for people who can see and hear. In this environment, I'm disabled. They place the burden on me to step out of my world and reach into theirs”
― Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

tags: disability, disability-awareness, disability-quotes

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“After a certain age, you can pretty much do whatever takes your fancy. No one tells you off, except for your doctors and your children.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

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“Because that’s what a sister is: a piece of yourself you can finally love, because it’s in someone else.”
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds

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“Disability is not something an individual overcomes. I'm still disabled. I'm still Deafblind. People with disabilities are successful when we develop alternative techniques and our communities choose inclusion.”
― Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

tags: disability, disability-awareness, disability-quotes

10 likes

“And what is history, anyway, but the chance to dig up our skeletons and give them new stories ?”
― Amber Sparks, And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

tags: history

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