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Guns were for protection, which wasn’t the same as self-defense, as researchers have explored. In the early 2000s, when he was a twenty-five-year-old graduate student, Victor Rios did fieldwork in the streets of Oakland, where he’d once
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“It's funny the decisions you make because you like someone, he says, and then your whole life is different. I think we're at that weird age where life can change a lot from small decisions.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more permanently. You learn nothing very profound about yourself simply by being bullied; but by bullying someone else you learn something you can never forget.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Shoshana’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shoshana’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Biography, Business, Chick-lit, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Sports, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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