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"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.”

I’m really confused by the sex in wildly inappropriate places/time. WTF?!! Get out of there!!

Eww no. I do not need sex scenes between 16 year olds. Just no. DNF.

"Your daughter's our backup baby?" the minister had asked.

"Emma is, yes." I shifted her upward in my arms. "She was just telling me how she hopes the leading Jesus sprains an ankle." He stared at me, but I thought it was funny.

We [a colony of moss] create the conditions of our thriving.

"No one will sing about me. What I make, fire will burn or time will wear away. When I'm gone, no praise or blame will attach to my story. To me, that's peace. I've lived lightly on the earth."

“A colony of moss has no interest in or even awareness of human activity. But if it did, it might say this: … Their brief lives allow them only a narrow field of vision, and they have only the barest understanding of the consequences of their actions.”

“What she feels most, though, is a kind of lost-ness, she has tossed aside the person who could love her in her strangeness and difficulty, whom she could love, who fit his personality to hers and whom she too grew to fit, and it seems impossible that she will find such a kinship again.”

“She cannot put her finger on it, the moment when she began to have a sense of walls closing in... increasingly, a kind of curtailment, the boundaries of her self growing smaller, her possible futures shutting down.”

“My aunt Matilda used to tell me there are few things that can't be solved with a shift in perspective and some shiny new trinkets.”

I’m with aunt Matilda on this!

On pause bc my KU free subscription ended 🙈