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Liz is Currently Reading

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R.I.P. Nanny Tobbins

by Lucie Stevens (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: historical-fiction, middle-grade, currently-reading

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Aug 28, 2026 06:21PM

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The Outsiders

by S.E. Hinton (Goodreads Author)

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Aug 01, 2026 12:32AM

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A Little Feminist History of Art

by Charlotte Mullins

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Liz’s Quotes

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

4254 likes

“Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights.”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

67 likes

“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

534 likes

“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

19 likes

“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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