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Becky Rice
https://www.goodreads.com/beckyrice
To know that someone was longing for you was the world’s strongest aphrodisiac.
“It’s a weird phrase in English, in love, like it’s a sea you drown in or a town you live in. You don’t get to be in anything else—in friendship or in anger or in hope. All you can be in is love.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“... the twin pillars that guard the entrance to the shrine of religion are storytelling and cruelty.”
― Women Talking
― Women Talking
“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“When Salma peers into her daughter’s coffee cup, she knows instantly she must lie.”
― Salt Houses
― Salt Houses
“But race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming “the people” has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. Difference in hue and hair is old. But the belief in the preeminence of hue and hair, the notion that these factors can correctly organize a society and that they signify deeper attributes, which are indelible—this is the new idea at the heart of these new people who have been brought up hopelessly, tragically, deceitfully, to believe that they are white.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
Becky’s 2025 Year in Books
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