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"Please. PLEASE let this one have some sauce. I recently reread the Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh and it's crazy how those 20 pages have more tension and development than her last like, 6 romances combined" — Jul 09, 2026 09:19PM
"Please. PLEASE let this one have some sauce. I recently reread the Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh and it's crazy how those 20 pages have more tension and development than her last like, 6 romances combined" — Jul 09, 2026 09:19PM
“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Susan . . . it wasn't a good name, was it? It wasn't a truly bad name, it wasn't like poor Iodine in the fourth form, or Nigella, a name which meant "oops, we wanted a boy." But it was dull. Susan. Sue. Good old Sue. It was a name that made sandwiches, kept its head in difficult circumstances, and could reliably look after other people's children.
It was a name used by no queens or goddesses anywhere.
And you couldn't do much even with the spelling. You could turn it into Suzi, and it sounded as though you danced on tables for a living. You could put in a Z and a couple of Ns and an E, but it still looked like a name with extensions built on. It was as bad as Sara, a name that cried out for a prosthetic H.”
― Soul Music
It was a name used by no queens or goddesses anywhere.
And you couldn't do much even with the spelling. You could turn it into Suzi, and it sounded as though you danced on tables for a living. You could put in a Z and a couple of Ns and an E, but it still looked like a name with extensions built on. It was as bad as Sara, a name that cried out for a prosthetic H.”
― Soul Music
2022 ONTD Reading Challenge
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Welcome to the 2022 ONTD Reading Challenge! This year, inspired by the recent ONTD renaissance, we are going all-in with books inspired by classic O ...more
ONTD Book Club
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The official book club for the book-loving fans of the LJ community Oh No They Didn't. Share suggestions for books, talk about books, tell your fellow ...more
2017 Reading Challenge
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Welcome to the 2017 Reading Challenge - a new list and a new challenge style for maximum participant success! It's easy to play along, and we have a ...more
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