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A Dowry of Blood

by S.T. Gibson (Goodreads Author)

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May 01, 2026 09:09AM

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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

by Becky Chambers (Goodreads Author)

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Kel’s Notes & Highlights

How to Be Black by Baratunde R. Thurston

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I didn’t grow up listening to conservative arguments—my mother loved me—but I found it oddly comforting to broaden my political ideology inputs while breathing in large amounts of cleaning chemicals.

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“It was never a love story. The story was always about my not-enoughness and my black-sheepness and my total inability to not feel like an empty piece of inconsequential shit who couldn’t do life.”
― Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

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“There is the life that most of us live, and then there is the life we have buried deep inside us, the life we know we’re supposed to be living.”
― Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

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“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

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“We take off our shoes. Mine don't fit right anyway, since in the spirit of waste-not-want-not that rules 13, I was issued a pair someone had outgrown. Apparently, one of us walks funny, because they're broken in all wrong.”
― Anonymous

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“They rested and had a light meal, talking quietly and listening from time to time. Twilight was about them as they crept back to the lane. The West wind was sighing in the branches. Leaves were whispering. Soon the road began to fall gently but steadily into the dusk. A star came out above the trees in the darkening East before them.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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