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Allessa is Currently Reading

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Wolf Worm

by T. Kingfisher

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Book cover for Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump

Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump by Dan Pfeiffer

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campaigns are about telling the American people a story—a story about where we are, where we are going, and why you are the right person, and your opponent is the wrong person, to take the country there. It’s a story that needs to be ...more

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

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Allessa’s Quotes

“I want to be with someone I can talk to. I want to be with someone who automatically has a fat folder on me. Someone who feels lucky when I tell them the most unflattering, scary stuff.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

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“It wasn't a romance; it was too perfect for that. With texts there were only the words and none of the awkwardness. They could get to know each other completely and get comfortable before they had to do anything unnecessarily overwhelming like look at each other's eyeballs with their eyeballs.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

tags: college, diversity, multicultural-fiction, romance, text-messaging, ya

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“It's piles and piles of emotional homework forever if you ever want to qualify as a grown-up”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

tags: emergency-contact, emotional, forever, grown-up, homework

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“Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

tags: emergency-contact, loveing, precious, the-world, traumatizing, vulnerable

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“I like knowing that you exist. It doesn't make me feel any less lonely, because life is lonely, but it makes me feel a lot less alone.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

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