Olivia Thames

Olivia’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (1162)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1154)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
manga‎ (456)
childrens‎ (261)
graphic-novel‎ (257)

young-adult‎ (187)
fantasy‎ (146)
audiobook‎ (138)
horror-suspense-thriller‎ (106)
science-fiction‎ (93)
non-fiction‎ (80)
biography-memoir‎ (73)

historical-fiction‎ (70)
mystery‎ (69)
ddbhh‎ (54)
cinema‎ (49)
comic-books‎ (42)
disability-advocacy‎ (34)
poetry‎ (32)

self-help-and-spirituality‎ (32)
short-stories‎ (28)
fiction‎ (27)
novella‎ (23)
fairy-tale‎ (15)
banned-books‎ (6)
script‎ (4)

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Olivia’s Quotes

“I'm here to learn, same as you. I just want to learn more than what they want us to know.”
― Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club

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“Change never happens at the pace we think it should. It happens over years of people joining together, strategizing, sharing, and pulling all the levers they possibly can. Gradually, excruciatingly slowly, things start to happen, and then suddenly, seemingly out of the blue, something will tip.”
― Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

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“As Ta-Nehisi Coates states, “But race is the child of racism, not the father.”6 He means that first we exploited people for their resources, not according to how they looked. Exploitation came first, and then the ideology of unequal races to justify this exploitation followed.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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“I remember once when runes gave you comfort, when sailors came to my father to cast bones and tell them of their time to come. They are a language, Maren. Just because you do not speak it doesn't make it devilry.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

tags: historical-fiction

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“We all have our own scars. Let them be a blessing and not a curse.”
― Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

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