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Sharika
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“It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.”
― Intercourse
― Intercourse
“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“If there is a Creator-God, it has used methods of creation that are indistinguishable from nature, it has declined to make itself known for all of recorded history, it doesn't intervene in affairs on earth, and has made itself impossible to observe. Even if you believe in that God... why would you think it would want to be worshiped?”
― Mom, Dad, I'm an Atheist: The Guide to Coming Out as a Non-Believer
― Mom, Dad, I'm an Atheist: The Guide to Coming Out as a Non-Believer
“But I’m not good at understanding what other people want.’
‘Tell me something I don’t know,’ said Rosie for no obvious reason.
I quickly searched my mind for an interesting fact.
‘Ahhh…The testicles of drone bees and wasp spiders explode during sex.”
― The Rosie Project
‘Tell me something I don’t know,’ said Rosie for no obvious reason.
I quickly searched my mind for an interesting fact.
‘Ahhh…The testicles of drone bees and wasp spiders explode during sex.”
― The Rosie Project
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
― The Mill on the Floss
― The Mill on the Floss
Sharika’s 2025 Year in Books
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Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Chick-lit, Children's, Classics, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Manga, Memoir, Mystery, Paranormal, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Young-adult, and Women's Fiction
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