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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 My Year of Rest and Relaxation

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

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More often than I needed, I’d get face peels and pedicures, massages, waxings, haircuts. That was how I mourned, I guess. I paid strangers to make me feel good. I might as well have hired a prostitute, I thought. That’s kind of what Dr. ...more

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Brigette’s Quotes

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

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“Is it possible to outthink yourself?”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

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“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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“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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“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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