Susan

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Susan’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (160)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (345)
fiction‎ (17)
ya-fiction‎ (17)
young-adult-fiction‎ (13)

fantasy‎ (12)
young-adult-fantasy-sci-fi-horror‎ (10)
autobiography‎ (6)
poetry‎ (6)
nonfiction‎ (5)
reference-book‎ (4)

romance‎ (3)
ya-poetry-plays-short-story‎ (2)
young-adult-nonfiction‎ (2)
historical-fiction‎ (1)
personal-essay‎ (1)
religious‎ (1)

ya-graphic-novel‎ (1)
ya-graphic-novel-history‎ (1)
ya-historical-fiction‎ (1)
young-adult-graphic-novel‎ (0)

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Susan’s Quotes

“Life is too short to learn German”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

tags: barbara-kingsolver, the-poisonwood-bible

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“I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.”
― patti smith, Just Kids

tags: just-kids, patti-smith

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“The point of this language of “intention” and “personal responsibility” is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. “Good intention” is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping