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“On our wedding night," she said, "I will cut out your tongue and swallow it. Then both tongues that spoke our marriage vows will belong to me, and I will be wed only to myself. You will most likely choke to death on your own blood, which will be unfortunate, but I will be both husband and wife and therefore not a widow to be pitied.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

tags: lada, marriage

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“I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

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“There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”
― Jamaica Kincaid

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“But in another city, another valley, another ghetto, another slum, another favela, another township, another intifada, another war, another birth, somebody is singing Redemption Song, as if the Singer wrote it for no other reason but for this sufferah to sing, shout, whisper, weep, bawl, and scream right here, right now.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

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“Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

tags: introversion, psychology, sociology

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NerdFighters Book Club — 2480 members — last activity Aug 31, 2026 03:07PM
NerdFighters Book Club - Each month we read either a book recommended by John Green or we vote on a book recommended by one of our members - feel fr ...more

BooktubeSFF Awards — 1684 members — last activity Jun 01, 2021 12:01PM
A group for discussing the BooktubeSFF Awards and associated readalongs. To learn more about the awards have a look at the website: http://booktubesff ...more

Wattpaders — 153 members — last activity Aug 24, 2023 02:10AM
This group is for persons who are on wattpad. We can share our books, poems and we can recommend other books to each other. We can follow each other o ...more

Rebel Women Lit — 142 members — last activity Mar 03, 2020 09:36PM
This is a book club dedicated to reading books by queer, black, and non-white/male authors. We cover a wide range of genres including contemporary, hi ...more