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Dara Tinius

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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder (Kiss, Merry, Kill, #2)

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The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy (Dearly Beloathed, #2)

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Dara’s Notes & Highlights

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

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presumably because the excessive bleeding of our hearts made us too weak to tough it out among the hardy, the chosen of Christ in the Bible Belt.

Dress Coded

by Carrie Firestone

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The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett

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“First you scare them, then you offer them your false hope. It’s disgusting. But it works. And now the politicians, familiar with the power of fear, have bought your potion wholesale.”
― Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds

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“The trick wasn’t necessarily having less fear, it was finding more courage.”
― Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds

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“I think that history is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory, which is kind of this blend of history and a little bit of emotion…I mean, history is kind of about what you need to know…but nostalgia is what you want to hear.”
― Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

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“He heard the quake that lived at my center, and he didn't seek to silence it.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

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“I don’t mean to sound pessimistic. I only do because I can see how wrong my choices were. Don’t do it like this. Don’t enter believing yourself a node in a grand undertaking, that your past and your trauma will define your future, that individuals don’t matter. The most radical thing I ever did was love him, and I wasn’t even the first person in this story to do that. But you can get it right, if you try. You will have hope, and you have been forgiven. Forgiveness, which takes you back to the person you were and lets you reset them. Hope, which exists in a future in which you are new. Forgiveness and hope are miracles. They let you change your life. They are time-travel.”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

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