Helena > Recent Status Updates

“Que este año me sea dado vivir en mí y no fantasear ni ser otras, que me sea dado ponerme buena y no buscar lo imposible sino la magia y extrañeza de este mundo que habito. Que me sean dados los deseos de vivir y conocer el mundo. Que me sea dado el interesarme por este mundo.”

qué suplicio

I’m already more

than you can be.
for that, only that

I forgive you
for everything.

This is REALLY good.

This audiobook is sooooo good!

Part one was CRA ZY!

“I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well! And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children and seen them most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?” - Sojourner Truth.

“It’s just good hospitality,’ Tokue countered.
‘For the customers?’
‘No. The beans.’
‘The beans?’
‘Because they came all the way from Canada. For us.”

Oh how I love japanese writing!

“Let Southern oppressors tremble—let their Northern apologists tremble—let all the enemies of the persecuted Blacks tremble … Urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—and I will be heard”.
How is this book, written in 1981, so relevant now?

First book of The Reading Rush! My birthstone is peridot which I find the ugliest one and the one that’s harder to match a book to! The color of the title of this book is as close as it gets for me lol