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I’ve worked hard to build a life that’s my own, that no one else could pull a plug on to send me swirling down a cosmic drain.
“Libraries had zero tolerance for bullshit. Their walls protected us and kept us safe from all the bastards that never read a book for fun.”
― Juliet Takes a Breath
― Juliet Takes a Breath
“You're the only right thing I've ever wanted.”
― The Last Graduate
― The Last Graduate
“Truth be told, I sometimes even felt like I was better than them—getting a better education in my white-ass town, speaking perfect English. How messed up is that? They knew two languages and there I was thinking I was hot shit because I knew what an Oxford comma was. Hey, internalized racism. How you doing?”
― Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
― Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
“You said reading would make me brilliant, but writing would make me infinite.”
― Juliet Takes a Breath
― Juliet Takes a Breath
“Above and beyond all else it must be borne in mind that hatred tends to dry up the springs of creative thought in the life of the hater, so that his resourcefulness becomes completely focused on the negative aspects of his environment. The urgent needs of the personality for creative expression are starved to death. A man's horizon may become so completely dominated by the intense character of his hatred that there remains no creative residue in his mind and spirit to give to great ideas, to great concepts.”
― Jesus and the Disinherited
― Jesus and the Disinherited
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Marilyn’s 2025 Year in Books
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