Sarah Scherer

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currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1021)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
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cds‎ (15)
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carn-text‎ (36)
carnegie-audio‎ (30)
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apocalyptic‎ (25)
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carnegie-cd-only‎ (16)
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nypl-3m‎ (8)
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Sarah’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Unkindest Tide (October Daye, #13)

The Unkindest Tide (October Daye, #13) by Seanan McGuire

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My standards may be low, but hey. They’ve earned it.

Sarah’s Quotes

“More details explain things more, but less details confuse things less,”
― David James Duncan, The Brothers K

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“In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant that they believe, first, that they possess Christ's power to bestow salvation, second, that forcing us to memorize and regurgitate a few of their favorite Bible phrases and attend their church is that salvation, and third, that any discomfort, frustration, anger or disagreement we express in the face of their moronic barrages is due not to their astounding effrontery but to our sinfulness?”
― David James Duncan, The Brothers K

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“And like many a Christian before them, they completely forgot that the only sword-shaped weapon Jesus ever actually used was the one He died on.”
― David James Duncan, The Brothers K

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“Anybody who listened to her talk or who read the zine she had begun publishing, Fantastic Fanzine, could easily become hypnotized by her words’ raw force: This world teaches women to hate themselves, but I refuse to listen to its message. I’m not going to let boys come between me and my girlfriends. I’m not going to try and be your idea of sexy if sexy means being thin and helpless, tottering around on high heeled shoes. I’m not going to stay home at night hating my sex because if I go out then I’m asking for trouble.”
― Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

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“Everybody gets jolted. You, me, before we die we’ll all get nailed, lots of times. But that doesn’t mean we’ll get turned into witches. You can’t avoid getting zapped, but you can avoid passing the mean energy on. That’s the interesting thing about witches, the challenge of them-- learning not to hit back, or hit somebody else, when they zap you. You can bury the zap, for instance, like the gods buried the Titans in the center of the earth. Or you can be like a river when a forest fire hits it--phshhhhhhhhhhhh! Just drown it, drown all the heat and let it wash away.”
― David James Duncan, The Brothers K

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