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“So when you look out at the sky, the farther you can see, the further back you are looking in time. The space between you and the star is time.”
― Atmosphere
― Atmosphere
“She has taught me patience. And as someone who has made their living through words, she has made me consider the dignity and persuasiveness of silence.”
― Raising Hare: A Memoir
― Raising Hare: A Memoir
“The grass in the centre of the field reached my waist in places, and I startled hares that ran and leapt, cresting the tops of the grass with a smooth flowing motion, dolphins of the meadow.”
― Raising Hare: A Memoir
― Raising Hare: A Memoir
“than most imagine. People with good intentions who stand silent in fear for themselves allow a mob marching on the excuse of righteousness to trample everything in its path, and in the path of the leader whose purposes it serves.”
― Typewriter Beach
― Typewriter Beach
“I would go so far as to say that as human beings, we are less of a “who” and more of a “when.” We are a body. But our atoms were many things before, and they will be many things after. The air I’m breathing is the same air your ancestors breathed. Even what is in my body right now—the cells, the air, the bacteria— it’s not only mine. It is a point of connection with every other living thing, made up of the same kinds of particles, ruled by the same physical laws.”
― Atmosphere
― Atmosphere
Appalachian & Southern Writers
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— last activity Mar 19, 2018 02:58PM
Appalachian & Southern Writers is a group dedicated to those authors who write about the South and particularly the Appalachians. Members bring discus ...more
Literary Fiction by People of Color
— 13420 members
— last activity Jun 17, 2026 11:19AM
This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more
Our Shared Shelf
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
The Next Best Book Club
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Are you searching for the NEXT best book? Are you willing to kiss all your spare cash goodbye? Are you easily distracted by independent bookshops, bi ...more
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