QuotesFromMyShelf

Just a Socially Anxious Introvert recording their favorite quotes 📚
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"But it was easy, wasn't it, when people were isolated. When information was scarce or siloed. People would believe whatever you put in front of them, if it fit into their understanding of the world" #KameronHurley #TheLightBrigade

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#WintersKing #TheWindsTwelveQuarters

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"Life loves to know itself, out to its furthest limits; to embrace complexity is its delight. Our difference is our beauty. All these worlds and the various forms and ways of the minds and lives and bodies in them - together they would make a splendid harmony" #UrsulaKLeguin

[johannes (yo-han-ehz) / semi-professional cuntboy @JohannesTEvans]

we're queers bc we cannot fit into cishet society without compartmentalising ourselves and splitting ourselves into part - if the queer spaces you are in are forcing you to do that shit again, YOU NEED AND DESERVE BETTER SPACES

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@AutisticCallum_ I've been working on trying to get things done "effectively" as opposed to doing them the "best" way. Definitely easier said than done but thinking about things this way has helped me a little

[Min Jin Lee @minjinlee11]

Racists only win when we give up. So we keep at it.

[Alexis Nikole Nelson @blackforager]

Everyone says “take a break for your health when you need it” but like???? We do not live in a world that is conducive to that????

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@seananmcguire Verna

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@cyborgyndroid Burning Roses by S.L. Huang. Queer novella with inspiration from Chinese and European fairy tales

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"Being a superhero is easy. Being a real person? That's hard" #CharlieJaneAnders #VictoriesGreaterThanDeath

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"The faceplate of my suit looks like a windshield in a summer rain, but then I realize: these are my tears" #CharlieJaneAnders #VictoriesGreaterThanDeath

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"You are an artist. There is no greater valor than to create beauty where none existed" #CharlieJaneAnders #VictoriesGreaterThanDeath #TorTeen #MosaicBooks #ShopLocal #IndieBookshop

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"The syntax of prejudice - threaded into conversation with the perfect pauses and facial expressions - was like ciphers and spy codes. The meaning clear to those it was meant for. To everyone else, it was harmless scribbles" #SonaliDev #PridePrejudiceAndOtherFlavors

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"When she pulled out of the Anchorage gates, she felt a little bit worse and a little bit better than she had when she got here. Maybe that was the true meaning of going home" #SonaliDev #PridePrejudiceAndOtherFlavors #WilliamMorrow #MosaicBooks #ShopLocal #IndieBookshop

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"Her story travelled like an ancestor, always ahead of, beside and behind her" #NnediOkorafor #RemoteControl #TorDotCom #MosaicBooks #ShopLocal #IndieBookshop

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#GideonTheNinth

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"In the thick dimness of the room she watched the black-garbed girl in front of her struggle around a thing that had settled over them like a net; a thing that had fused between them like a badly broken limb, shattered numerous times, healing gnarled and awful" #TamsynMuir

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"The house continued on in grand and grisly majesty because you were always looking at it; it continued because you watched it continue, changeless and black, before your eyes" #TamsynMuir #GideonTheNinth