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It’s quite a thing when the world is upside down to hear someone say it don’t have to be—that a man could be paid enough to feed and house himself. Two beers in, Rye felt lifted by a sense of hope.
“You forget your bravery. You stop trusting yourself. Other people’s words “You shouldn’t be like that,” in whatever context, become your own words “I am wrong for being like this. It’s my fault.”
― How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life
― How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life
“I am living in the most opportune time in black history in the United States and that means, still, that I will die younger, live poorer, risk more exposure to police violence, and be punished by social policy for being a black woman in ways that aren’t true for almost any other group in this nation. That is the best it has ever been to be black in America and it is still that statistically bad at the macro level.”
― Thick: And Other Essays
― Thick: And Other Essays
“There were many ways to be alienated from someone, few to actually belong.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“Not many people know how to be satisfied.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“What’s the one thing about yourself that you were taught to hate? What’s the biggest thing that you were taught is imperfect about you?”
― How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life
― How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life
All Souls Trilogy Re-read
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Over the next several weeks, we'll be re-reading the first two books of the All Souls Trilogy (A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night) leading up ...more
The Ladies' Internet Literary Society
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A book club for the best little corner of the internet.
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
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An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
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