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Shani
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“We need much less than we think we need.”
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“Lonely, ain't it?
Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.”
― Sula
Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.”
― Sula
“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
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Shani’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shani’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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