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Mari is Currently Reading

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Motherthing

by Ainslie Hogarth (Goodreads Author)

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The Volcano Daughters

by Gina María Balibrera

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Katabasis

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

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Mari’s Notes & Highlights

Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb

3 notes & 11 highlights

“There’s something about realizing that the birds have been here all along, and all I have to do is learn how to pay attention. It’s sort of like reading, I think, looking for those little gems in the text, the words and phrases that call ...more

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When Women Kill

by Alia Trabucco Zerán

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I, Medusa

by Ayana Gray

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Mari’s Quotes

“Please,
Respect my silence,
Silence is my best weapon
Did you feel my words
When I fell silent?
Did you feel the beauty of what I said
When I said nothing?”
― Nizar Qabbani

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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits

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“Watching your beloved be trampled and ridiculed with your own eyes and being unable to do a thing about it. You understand that you are nothing, that you can do nothing. That’s the worst suffering in the world.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 4

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