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Jacqui is Currently Reading

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The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life

by Suleika Jaouad

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The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)

by Anne Rice

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Jacqui’s Quotes

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

35641 likes

“But I'm tired of coming out. All I ever do is come out. I try not to change, but I keep changing, in all these tiny ways. I get a girlfriend. I have a beer. And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

tags: coming-out, glbt, simon-spier

482 likes

“I wrote because of their inability to nurture me. I wrote to conceal the truth that life was filled with pain and that true beauty could only come from that pain. I wrote to simply disguise that pain.”
― A.P. Sweet, dead, but dreaming

tags: beauty, pain, writing

2 likes

“Her eyes burn like
a match head striking
my flesh with ferocity
and precision to ignite
the night with a divinorum induced
dream.”
― A.P. Sweet, dead, but dreaming

tags: dream, eyes, fire, flesh, ignite, match

3 likes

“For this nirvana, I willingly
give in to the numbness of
my wrist.”
― A.P. Sweet, dead, but dreaming

tags: nirvana, numbness

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