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“We have a saying in France, ‘À chaque oiseau son nid est beau’—the bird loves his own nest. You don’t know any other nest, Minnie. You must spread your wings and learn to fly.”
“Everything is broken and messed up and completely fine. That is what life is. It's only the ratios that change. usually on their own.”
― Sorrow and Bliss
― Sorrow and Bliss
“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
“Not many people know how to be satisfied.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“Never has it felt more important for me to tell stories of joy and abandon, passion and recklessness. Life is short and difficult, people. We must take our pleasures where we can find them. Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“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
All Souls Trilogy Re-read
— 294 members
— last activity Dec 22, 2016 03:22PM
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
— 26 members
— last activity Mar 07, 2017 07:07AM
A book club for the best little corner of the internet.
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
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— last activity 11 hours, 24 min ago
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
Caitlin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Caitlin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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