Jess Milner

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Jess is Currently Reading

Jess Milner is currently reading

The Queer Thing About Sin: Why the West Came to Hate Queer Love

by Harry Tanner

bookshelves: 2025, audiobook, lgbt, non-fiction, read-in-release-year, currently-reading

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Dec 02, 2025 11:45PM

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Last One Out

by Jane Harper (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2025, arc, ebook, currently-reading

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— Dec 02, 2025 10:44AM

Dec 01, 2025 05:17AM

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The Complete Poems

by Emily Dickinson

bookshelves: 2022, physical-book, poetry, currently-reading, 2023

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Jess’s Quotes

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: poetry

6195 likes

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking

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“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: emotions, mercy

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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