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“Hey, Rocky!” I call out from the lab. “Watch me pull a Taumoeba out of a hat!”
“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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“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
“As Kafka said, “The meaning of life is that it ends.”
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
“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
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— 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
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— last activity Mar 26, 2022 11:50AM
This list is the suggested reading for our book club.
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