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Lindsey is Currently Reading

Lindsey is currently reading

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (Signature Editions)

by Booker T. Washington

bookshelves: history, non-fiction, memoir, race, currently-reading

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Lindsey’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

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You got to have something to comb hair over. When you see uh woman doin’ so much rakin’ in her head, she’s combin’ at some man or ’nother.”

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Lindsey’s Quotes

“Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: dark-humor, humor, marriage, women-s-strength

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“What's the n-never-fail universal apology?"

"'I was badly misinformed, I deeply regret the error, go fuck yourself with this bag of money.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

tags: apologies, apology, bribery

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“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre