鈥淎re you coming home?鈥 There is an edge to his voice, and I realize, not for the first time in the past few months, how unused to discomfort we both are. We do not know how to live a life that the bottom has fallen out of. These were not
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“at some point in a woman鈥檚 life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls

“The world ain't straight. You grow up thinking things are a certain way. You think there are rules. You think there's a way that things have to be. You try to live straight. But the world doesn't care about your rules, or what you believe. The world ain't straight, Vivian. Never will be. Our rules, they don't mean a thing. The world just happens to you sometimes, is what I think. And people just gotta keep moving through it, best they can.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls

“Not many people know how to be satisfied.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls

“What鈥檚 the one thing about yourself that you were taught to hate? What鈥檚 the biggest thing that you were taught is imperfect about you?”
― How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life
― How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life

“Everything is broken and messed up and completely fine. That is what life is. It's only the ratios that change. usually on their own.”
― Sorrow and Bliss
― Sorrow and Bliss

Over the next several weeks, we'll be re-reading the first two books of the All Souls Trilogy (A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night) leading up ...more

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An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
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