Lydia

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to-read‎ (692)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1341)
non-fiction‎ (220)
biography-autobiography-memoir‎ (200)
literary-fiction‎ (164)
blacklivesmatter‎ (116)
audiobook-version‎ (107)
young-adult-fiction‎ (58)

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my-favorites‎ (45)
books-about-florida‎ (29)
pulitzer-prize-winners-finalists‎ (26)
asian-american-writers‎ (18)
didn-t-finish-it-dont-plan-to‎ (18)
books-about-horses‎ (16)
historical-fantasy‎ (14)
romance-fiction‎ (13)

books-set-in-india‎ (9)
magical-realism‎ (9)
passion-project‎ (9)
health‎ (8)
hispanic-american-writers‎ (8)
speculative-fiction‎ (8)
biography-autobiography‎ (6)
books-about-chicago‎ (6)
books-set-in-nigeria‎ (6)

poetry-collection‎ (6)
books-set-in-the-middle-east‎ (3)
books-about-detroit‎ (2)
books-set-in-ghana‎ (2)
short-stories‎ (2)
books-set-in-liberia‎ (1)
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“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

tags: life, unfairness

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“What can be explained is not poetry.”
― W.B. Yeats

tags: poetry, yeats

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“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

tags: books, humor, television

6842 likes

“The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

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