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Michelle is Currently Reading

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared Diamond

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Nov 27, 2025 08:45AM

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I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

by Marisa Crane

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Oct 12, 2025 08:33PM

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A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture

by June Thomas

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Circe by Madeline Miller

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But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.

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Michelle’s Quotes

“It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: african-american-authors, feminism, literature

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“Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: bad, daenerys, daenerys-targaryen, good, people, queen

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“With you, intimacy colours my voice.
even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here'.”
― Warsan Shire

tags: love

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“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars

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“Sweet, she thought. He must think I can't bear to hear him say it. That after all I have told him and after telling me how many feet I have, "goodbye" would break me to pieces. Ain't that sweet.

"So long," she murmured from the far side of the trees.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

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