Laura

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Laura’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (222)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (964)
did-not-finish‎ (18)
diaspora-reads‎ (135)
lgbt-fiction‎ (325)
romance‎ (228)
historical-fiction‎ (142)
french‎ (131)
nonfiction‎ (123)
coming-of-age‎ (116)
crime‎ (114)

graphic-novels‎ (86)
gay-ya‎ (78)
favorites‎ (77)
lgbt‎ (67)
fantasy‎ (60)
short-stories‎ (59)
magical-realism‎ (52)
jewry‎ (47)
urban-fantasy‎ (47)
lgbt-nonfiction‎ (45)
memoirs-and-journals‎ (42)
grief‎ (36)

child-abuse‎ (33)
sports-narratives‎ (33)
lgbt-tbr‎ (31)
religion‎ (29)
wwii‎ (25)
dystopian-novels‎ (23)
least-favourite‎ (23)
poetry‎ (21)
comics‎ (20)
japanese‎ (20)
anthology‎ (19)
rape-cw‎ (19)

school-reading‎ (18)
epistolary‎ (17)
manga‎ (17)
speculative-fiction‎ (16)
war-narrative‎ (16)
horror‎ (15)
mental-illness‎ (15)
suicide-cw‎ (15)
racism‎ (14)
there-is-something-dangerous-etc‎ (14)
abuse‎ (13)
aids-epidemic‎ (13)

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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

47 likes

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
― Arundhati Roy

553 likes

“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

969 likes

“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

72 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

180 likes

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