Sharon

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Sharon is Currently Reading

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The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins

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Mar 16, 2026 05:48PM

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Sunjata

by Bamba Suso

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Mar 04, 2026 07:10AM

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Silver Birch, Blood Moon

by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 15, 2026 04:28PM

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Sharon’s Quotes

“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

tags: dark, darkness, light, stories, story

519 likes

“Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.”
― Flannery O'Connor

287 likes

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

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“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
― Bill Watterson

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“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning

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