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Martyr!
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Booze worked that way sometimes, clarifying—briefly—what his mind couldn’t. It was like sitting in the optometrist’s office, booze flashing its different lenses in front of your face and sometimes, for a second, it’d be the right
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I’ve never read a more apt description of an alcoholic’s relationship with booze.
“I can be mad at you and still love you, you know.” No, actually, I didn’t know that. I had no idea.”
― Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
― Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
“The only problem is that you’re never finished, you can never prove enough, the people laughing just move the boundaries.”
― Us Against You
― Us Against You
“We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must always ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there, you begin to get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
“Men don’t age better than women, they’re just allowed to age.”
― The Starfish Sisters
― The Starfish Sisters
“Sometimes grief is love unexpressed. Other times it’s regret made flesh.”
― All the Sinners Bleed
― All the Sinners Bleed
Melanie’s 2025 Year in Books
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408 books
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