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“People there were so kind. There’s a lovely word in Swahili: nishauri. It means “advise me. When someone was mad at you, they would come to your house and sit down and talk and say, This is very disrespectful and I think we should consult each other on how to move forward. Let’s make peace here and come to a conclusion that is beautiful.”
― The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
― The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
“I wanted to retain the right to disappear. Remaining in place, nesting -- it sets off fears that somebody would yank me away. To counter it, I had to flee. I had to reassure myself that I still knew how to escape.”
― The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
― The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
“My refugee skills were kicking in. I wanted to be who I needed to be and get what there was to get. There was a feedback loop that I could now see. If I performed well in my role as a student, people responded with happiness and pride and wanted to pour more resources into me. Fill me up again and again.”
― The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
― The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
“Our minds are malleable. Our minds can be possessed - possessed so gradually that we don’t even realize we’ve lost control.”
― The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
― The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
“I did not understand the point of the word genocide then. I resent and revile it now. The word is tidy and efficient. It holds no true emotion. It is impersonal when it needs to be intimate, cool and sterile when it needs to be gruesome. The word is hollow, true but disingenuous, a performance, the worst kind of lie. It cannot do justice--it is not meant to do justice--to the thing it describes.”
― The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
― The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
Charlotte’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Charlotte’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
465 books
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60 friends
140 books
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32 friends
60 books
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34 friends
107 books
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52 friends
1 book
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106 friends
15 books
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89 friends
1 book
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0 books
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20 friends
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