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Ashley is Currently Reading

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The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

bookshelves: classics, literary, paper-owned, poc-author, currently-reading

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— Jun 21, 2026 01:29PM

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Blood Bound (Cursed Covenant, #1)

by Ellis Hunter (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, fantasy, romance

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Ashley’s Quotes

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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“As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.”
― Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials

tags: controversy, inspirational, science

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“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

tags: books, reading

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“Time is priceless, but it’s Free. You can't own it, you can use it. You can spend it. But you can't keep it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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