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when I think about my home country, I remember the honey-drenched baklava my aunts gave me,
“All our lives, we’ve been taught to be good. To control our unruly desires. To punish our bodies and whip the animal into submission. Nobody ever told us that the animal is soft. The animal is vulnerable, and tender, and kind. The animal doesn’t deserve this. We don’t deserve this.”
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“As Martin Luther King Jr. prophesied, “I believe what the self-centered have torn down, the other-centered will build up.”
― The Exquisite Risk: Daring to Live an Authentic Life
― The Exquisite Risk: Daring to Live an Authentic Life
“No really. What exactly did you do today, Jenny? Quantify it for me."
"It's not quantifiable. There aren't even metrics for the shit I do.”
― Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
"It's not quantifiable. There aren't even metrics for the shit I do.”
― Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
“Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
Let's Pretend This Never Happened Book Club
— 1251 members
— last activity Apr 10, 2013 04:49PM
A (probably temporary) book club created to discuss "Let's Pretend This Never Happened" while home, in our pajamas and (optional) drunk. It will be aw ...more
Momma P's Book Club
— 18 members
— last activity Jul 26, 2019 05:36PM
A fun way to share our love of books and reading. A safe place to share/recommend books. The good, the bad, the did not finish.
Pikes Peak Atheists Fiction Book Club
— 6 members
— last activity Mar 26, 2022 11:50AM
This list is the suggested reading for our book club.
Jackie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jackie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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110 friends
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527 books
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60 books
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26 books
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107 books
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322 books
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30 friends
180 books
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