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"350 pages to the end and I have to stop again cuz HOLY SMOKES book 4 isn’t easy to read y’all. At first I thought, yeah, I can handle this, not too graphic. But no no no, it’s too much! Resuming in a bit though cuz I love this book so much." May 29, 2019 03:33PM

 
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Kiese Laymon
“The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other.”
Kiese Laymon, Heavy

Jenny Erpenbeck
“there’s no better way to make history disappear than to unleash money, money roaming free has a worse bite than an attack dog, it can effortlessly bite an entire building out of existence,”
Jenny Erpenbeck, Go, Went, Gone

Anna Burns
“She meant depressions, for da had had them: big, massive, scudding, whopping, black-cloud, infectious, crow, raven, jackdaw, coffin-upon-coffin, catacomb-upon-catacomb, skeletons-upon-skulls-upon-bones crawling along the ground to the grave type of depressions.”
Anna Burns, Milkman

Dorthe Nors
“Within her there seems to be a rattling; from little stones, from stalks, from days when it never quits. Inside her the sky empties itself in slow, unresolving fashion, and there isn’t anything worth naming in the fridge.”
Dorthe Nors, Spejl, skulder, blink

Kiese Laymon
“I knew, truth be told, that a present American man would likely teach me how to be a present American man. and I couldn't imagine how those teachings would have made me healthier or more generous.”
Kiese Laymon, Heavy

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