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Brooke
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Vanity Fair
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But, lo! and just as the coach drove off, Miss Sharp put her pale face out of the window and actually flung the book back into the garden.
Ah, Becky Sharp, one of my favorite sassy devils of all time.
“At some time, every Negro in the armed services asks himself what he is getting for the supreme sacrifice he is called upon to make.” —Pittsburgh Courier, November 9, 1944”
― The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
― The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
“Fearing cold and flu season, I fist-bump the credit card signature pad.”
― American Housewife
― American Housewife
“Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“But what could you do? Only keep going. People kept going; they had been doing it for thousands of years. You took the kindness offered, letting it seep as far in as it could go, and the remaining dark crevices you carried around with you, knowing that over time they might change into something almost bearable”
― Amy and Isabelle
― Amy and Isabelle
“Imagination is the only thing that stops us from thinking about death every second. And when we aren’t thinking? Oh, those are all our very best moments, when we’re wasting our lives. It’s an act of magnificent rebellion to do meaningless things, to waste time, to swim and drink soda and sleep late. To be silly and frivolous, to laugh at stupid little jokes and tell stupid little stories.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
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Brooke’s 2025 Year in Books
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