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Emily Philips

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Malibu Rising

by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Goodreads Author)

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Writers & Lovers by Lily King

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I squat there and think about how you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. Sometimes you mix the two up in a terrible tangle that’s hard ...more

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Broken Country

by Clare Leslie Hall

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“I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can understand a tender, unprejudiced Jesus. But I could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house. You wind up walking on eggshells, never knowing which... is at home at the moment.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

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“He stamped me with a belief in justice, then drenched me in culpability, and I wouldn't wish such torment even on a mosquito.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

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