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Chenise is Currently Reading

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Unsteady

by Peyton Corinne (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2023-release, currently-reading

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Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

by Kylie Lee Baker (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2025-release, bipoc-authors, currently-reading

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Theft of Swords (The Riyria Revelations, #1-2)

by Michael J. Sullivan (Goodreads Author)

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Chenise’s Quotes

“He presses the triggers. And like roses in his hands, death blooms.”
― Jay Kristoff, Illuminae

412 likes

“A fragment for my friend--
If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you
Silent, my starship suspended in night”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

tags: friendship, poetry

422 likes

“Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn't be this big awkward thing whether you're straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I'm just saying.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

tags: glbt, simon-spier

1192 likes

“Patience and Silence had one beautiful daughter. And her name was Vengeance.”
― Amie Kaufman, Gemina

396 likes

“I feel like I'm losing my damn mind, like your face has been carved into my heart, and I don't remember when, and I don't understand why, but the scar is there, and I can't get it to heal. It won't go. I can't make it fade. And you won't even look at me.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

584 likes

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