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Amanda is Currently Reading

Amanda Belcher is currently reading

The Impossible Garden of Clara Thorne

by Summer N. England

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"“She’s paying for craft supplies. That’s foreplay” lmao" — 17 hours, 2 min ago

Apr 13, 2026 02:37PM

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Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)

by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author)

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Amanda’s Notes & Highlights

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

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Every one of us alive today comes from something bad done to the family that came before us. You being alive is a goddamn miracle, so no more talk about sour blood. Own your mistakes, make amends and move on. We owe that to those who didn’t ...more

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Amanda’s Quotes

“Everyone thinks I’m going to eventually die of a heart attack, but joke’s on y’all—it’s definitely going to be of secondhand embarrassment.”
― Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.

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“Sometimes you need people to be perfect and they can’t be and you hate them forever for not being even though it isn’t their fault and it’s not yours either. You just needed something they didn’t have in them to give you.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

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“Loving yourself is a full-time job with shitty benefits. I'm calling in sick.”
― Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

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“Do you know how to live three hundred years?” she says. And when he asks how, she smiles. “The same way you live one. A second at a time.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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“But a life without art, without wonder, without beautiful things—she would go mad. She has gone mad.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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