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Kristen Lemaster

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“We would’ve told her that all together, we got centuries on her. If we laid all our lives toes to heel, we were born before the Depression, the Civil War, even America itself. In all that living, we have known men. Oh girl, we have known littlebit love. That littlebit of honey left in an empty jar that traps the sweetness in your mouth long enough to mask your hunger. We have run tongues over teeth to savor that last littlebit as long as we could, and in all our living, nothing has starved us more. —”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

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“You gotta be a soft thing in love. Hard love don't last.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

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“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days or unseen and infrequently thought of. How without any one of these people the world is a subtly but unmistakably altered place, the dial turned just one or two degrees.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

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“Survival is insufficient.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

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“We tried to love the world. We cleaned after this world, scrubbed its hospital floors and ironed its shirts, sweated in its kitchens and spooned school lunches, cared for its sick and nursed its babies. But the world didn't want us, so we left and gave our love to Upper Room. Now we're afraid of this world. A boy snatched Hattie's purse one night and now none of us go out after dark. We hardly go anywhere at all, besides Upper Room. We've seen what this world has to offer. We're scared of what it wants.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

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FSU HESA 2017 — 9 members — last activity Jun 08, 2015 11:15AM
For our summer book discussions!

The Rory Gilmore Book Club — 23334 members — last activity Jan 01, 2026 11:35AM
Reading is sexy! This group is for fans of literature and the Gilmore Girls. Join us for some witty banter, numerous pop culture references, and enlig ...more

Our Shared Shelf — 223241 members — last activity Dec 16, 2025 12:22AM
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more

Bookstagram — 2445 members — last activity Feb 03, 2025 04:37PM
For People with Book Accounts on Instagram to connect and discuss books, books pictures and bookish stuff! Started by yours truly at http://www.insta ...more