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“Mother Sister Daughter Stranger” by Hank Phillippi Ryan coming out 9/1/26 is promising.

2 sisters survive a plane crash that kills both their parents. 10 years later one sister goes missing (or did she?) … also ex-husband Kyle sound like a tool.

I didn’t realize this book was a like 2 book in 1, first half her POV, second half the same book but his POV.

This book is entirely too long.

"Seriously, skip me with that low-self-esteem bullshit, Dzifa. That's for white girls...'Oh my God-ah, I ate a piece of cheese today. I heeate myself.’ They hate themselves and they get everything anyway.”

“Asking women to confidently refuse or withdraw consent feels almost cruel in a culture that constantly socializes women to prioritize other people's feelings and subsume their own.”

“This learned reflex of centering male experience and male action while marginalizing female experience is exactly what consent culture strives to correct when it stresses that, ultimately, the identification of a coercive sexual act lies not in the nature or degree of coercion but in the consent or lack thereof.”

“There's a certain type of man I call a voting-booth feminist. He's down with Kamala Harris. AOC rocks…But he doesn't, like, pick up his socks. He doesn't cook much. He doesn't clean much. He doesn't watch chick movies or read women authors…If there is a way to integrate his so-called feminism into his private life, he doesn't see it. Which is to say, he doesn't want to see it.”

“How we talk about God's gender in a culture that uses gender to allocate money, power, safety, duty, and opportunity matters. Readability and convention are not compelling enough reasons to cast half the world out of likeness with God while the other half sees themselves continually mirrored.”

“Destiny knocked, and you either cowered behind the door or you flung it open to see what life held for you next.”

"I learned long ago not to think too highly of other people's
opinions. They always let you down."

“Whiteness, she believed, was not only color ... It was more affectation and flair. An attitude of ownership. That you were owed shit…If you could have the audacity to believe yourself appointed above all, delude yourself into believing that you were victim, yet posed as the victor while still demanding more tokens and tributes to affirm and establish the position you created for yourself, were you not white?”

"Reading is one of the only things in life that can take you out of yourself,"

"It's amazing what the presence or the absence of light will do for a thing. Visually, but even more than that. Looking at something in the right light allows us to see things, experience things, imagine things—all in a way we never previously thought possible."

“Part of the trick to maintaining a home-based spiritual practice is to remind yourself frequently that your everyday life is a spiritual activity.”

Eww eww eww. Not sure I can finish this one … Devonte is sooooo gross!! 🤢

I have no idea what’s going on at this point, but I hate Devonte. He gives “ick” vibes.

“God does not speak into our lives to tell us what we already know. He speaks into our lives to tell us what we need to hear.”