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“Do not trust pretty things. You know better.”

But to see real monsters, with all the viciousness of childhood fairytales? She couldn’t wait. “We are the witches here, Lord Saphir. It is the monsters who should be bothered by us.“
Triphine clapped giddily. “Well said, Mallory! Keep up that confidence, and he’ll never guess that you are utterly useless.“

“Do you believe in other lives? Like there are versions of ourselves that are just particles of light waiting to materialize if only we take another path, step left instead of right? Because I do.”

I just finished an entire bowl of tofu ramen in my hotel room and I really still want the green tea cheesecake in the fridge but I’m so fuuuuullllllll

CLAY CANE LIKED MY REVIEW OF HIS BOOK
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

Wow I love it! So fascinating. I want more bugs 🐞

“Storm’s just noise,” Harriet said. “We’ve been through worse.”

I’ve already decided when I write my review, I am not including any TW. Yes, the book is violent. It’s a book; it’s just noise. The real violence is happening in the world around us - the author’s hope in writing this book is to inspire readers to react, protect and defend, and keep our community from going through worse.

“I’ll make ‘em pay,” he said to himself. “I’ll get my justice. Tried doing it the right way, played by their rules, and look at where it got me, empty-handed and full of regret. Never again.”

“… the real fear isn’t Black and Brown people knowing their history - it’s young White children being inspired. The possibility that they might see themselves not in the oppressors, but in the rebels, the freedom fighters, the ones who dared to demand a better, more just world. That’s why this novel is for everyone, a story not confined to race or ancestry, but rooted in a universal struggle.”

“There is a power in retelling stories of liberation. When a society reclaims its past, when it knows that rebellion has happened and can happen again, it not only shatters the manipulative force of misinformation but also steps closer to building a future in which oppressive systems can be undone. Remembering an act of opposition.”

FUCK ICE
RIP Renee Good

The Baynards’ fear turned to hysteria. Lady Baynard kicked her feet, her voice breaking into a soprano wail, her demure presentation falling to pieces. “You gonna burn in hell for this!”

“I already burned,” Josephine responded. “Rose from the fire.”

Old Mama Bess grinned, her crow’s feet becoming more detailed. “I believe the Lord put it in my hands to do His work. No sin in fighting for your freedom. No sin in taking back what they stole. You think they care about your soul? They don’t. But I do. And I’ll be damned if I leave this world without seeing you free.”

Mistress Kitty…was blind to her complicity. Her unearned place in a world that valued skin over character was her cover, her shield. But she was also a woman, and that meant she was not a full citizen. She was owned by a man who saw her as a keeper of his house…Her womanhood was a brand, marking her as property, but she saw no solidarity with Ruby. Mistress Kitty was both the oppressor and the oppressed.

No sign of MEDUSA as we know her yet……..

“I’ve never cared much for power” she says. “It’s enough for me to help people“

“That’s the curious thing about monsters,” she whispers. “The worst ones don’t bother hiding in the dark“

“Prince Maheer is a man with power, and men with power are always the first to be believed.”

Who uses their local library? If you do, how do you use it - ebooks, audiobooks, physical, magazines? How often?

I currently have 38 checkouts and 41 holds 🤗

SAFETY AND CONSENT ARE EVERYTHING 🙌