Kellie Morrissey

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“Do not resent her. Think about the situation, for instance, when you take the last trash bag from its box: you must throw out the box by putting it in that very trash bag. What was once contained, now must contain. The container, then, becomes the contained, the enveloped, the held.”
― Lorrie Moore, Self-Help

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“You’ll give her name. In the stitches of her skin she’ll wear your say.”
― Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

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“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?”
― Miranda July, The First Bad Man

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“because people so poor that they can’t even afford shame and I wait.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

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“The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.” I waited in silence”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

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RMFAO (Reading My Frigging A** Off) — 868 members — last activity Jun 21, 2026 01:20PM
This group is taking a break and will be on an indefinite hold starting January 1, 2024. We are a fun bunch of nerds and bookworms/bookdragons who lo ...more

What's the Name of That Book??? — 122162 members — last activity 27 minutes ago
Can't remember the title of a book you read? Come search our bookshelves and discussion posts. If you don’t find it there, post a description on our U ...more

Quarantine Book Club — 1 member — last activity Mar 19, 2020 02:09PM
We're all stuck inside so why not. ...more

Literary Fiction by People of Color — 13659 members — last activity Oct 06, 2026 03:19AM
This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more