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Liz is Currently Reading

Liz is currently reading

The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life)

by George Monbiot

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Oct 28, 2025 03:06PM

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Thou Savage Woman: Female Killers in Early Modern Britain

by Blessin Adams

bookshelves: currently-reading, history, true-crime

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Oct 12, 2025 03:36AM

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Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece

by Camille Laurens

bookshelves: currently-reading, non-fiction, history

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Jan 23, 2025 11:16PM

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Liz’s Quotes

“the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses”
― E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems

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“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.”
― Rumi

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“She knew what desire was — though she didn’t know she knew. It was like this: she was starving but not for food, it was a kind of painful taste that rose from the pit of her stomach and made her nipples quiver and her arms empty without an embrace.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

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“Oh, sleep. Nothing else could ever bring me such pleasure, such freedom, the power to feel and move and think and imagine, safe from the miseries of my waking consciousness.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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“that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

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