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Brigette is Currently Reading

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

by Ocean Vuong

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Feb 17, 2026 08:41AM

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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

by Mustafa Suleyman

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Feb 23, 2025 09:36AM

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The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

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Brigette’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think by Brianna Wiest

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Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.

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Brigette’s Quotes

“I have heard all of the stories about girls like me, and I am unafraid to make more of them.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties

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“It is love. But I will not stay.
My father
was a long dark fairytale too.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

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“Once you've seen how broken someone is it's like seeing them naked—you can't look at them the same anymore.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

tags: brokenness, honesty, openness, pain, perceptions, transparency

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“Don’t let things sit for too long. It’s always tempting to just ignore the things that aren’t actually on fire just at the moment, but then you’re also committing to spend your time putting out fires.”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

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“People's capacity for turning dogmatic stupidity into political movements never ceased to amaze me. We've knocked off 99.9% of the human race and somehow the crazies still manage to survive. It just defies the odds.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

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