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Amanda is Currently Reading

Amanda Belcher is currently reading

Is This a Cry for Help?

by Emily R. Austin (Goodreads Author)

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Amanda’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)

Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1) by Ann Leckie

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Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

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Amanda’s Quotes

“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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“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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“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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“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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“You never commit a mundane moment to memory, thinking it'll be the last time you'll hear their voice, or see their smile, or smell their perfume. Your head never remembers the things your heart wants to in hindsight.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

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