Laura

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Laura’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (177)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (975)
did-not-finish‎ (18)
diaspora-reads‎ (137)
lgbt-fiction‎ (330)
romance‎ (229)
historical-fiction‎ (142)
french‎ (132)
nonfiction‎ (126)
coming-of-age‎ (117)
crime‎ (117)

graphic-novels‎ (86)
gay-ya‎ (78)
favorites‎ (77)
lgbt‎ (71)
fantasy‎ (60)
short-stories‎ (60)
magical-realism‎ (52)
jewry‎ (47)
lgbt-nonfiction‎ (47)
urban-fantasy‎ (47)
memoirs-and-journals‎ (44)
grief‎ (40)

child-abuse‎ (33)
sports-narratives‎ (33)
religion‎ (29)
wwii‎ (25)
dystopian-novels‎ (24)
least-favourite‎ (24)
lgbt-tbr‎ (23)
rape-cw‎ (23)
japanese‎ (22)
poetry‎ (21)
comics‎ (20)
anthology‎ (19)

school-reading‎ (18)
epistolary‎ (17)
manga‎ (17)
speculative-fiction‎ (17)
suicide-cw‎ (16)
war-narrative‎ (16)
horror‎ (15)
mental-illness‎ (15)
abuse‎ (14)
aids-epidemic‎ (14)
irish‎ (14)
racism‎ (14)

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Laura’s Quotes

“I had a dream I put my hands inside my chest and held my heart to try to keep it still.”
― Mariko Tamaki, Skim

tags: beautiful-writing

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“My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

tags: art, feminism, writing-life

73 likes

“Resistance is the secret of joy!”
― Alice Walker

tags: alice-walker

43 likes

“The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.”
― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

181 likes

“Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.”
― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

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