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2021-10-02 21:24:58 Tish is sensitive, and that is her superpower. The opposite of sensitive is not brave. It’s not brave to refuse to pay attention, to refuse to notice, to refuse to feel and know and imagine. The opposite of sensitive is insensitive, and that’s no badge of honor.

Glennon Doyle, Untamed

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2021-10-01 07:35:32 It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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2021-09-30 13:14:07 “But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life – find the knot – untangle it.”

— Martha Ostenso

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2021-09-27 20:09:31 Something else is hurting you—that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think.

— Charles Bukowski

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2021-09-18 22:42:02 Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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2021-09-18 22:38:42 This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that the perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite.

Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, a powerful novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up. Ouvert / Commentaire

2021-09-17 23:19:02 So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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2021-09-16 22:12:50 Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a young German pastor who was executed by the Nazis in 1945 for his part in the “officers’ plot” to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

Acute and subtle, warm and perceptive, yet also profoundly moving, the documents collectively tell a very human story of loss, of courage, and of hope. Bonhoeffer’s story seems as vitally relevant, as politically prophetic, and as theologically significant today, as it did yesterday. Ouvert / Commentaire

2021-09-12 20:23:52 Connell is popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal.

A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. She has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, They circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically,irresistibly drawn back together. Then,as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere,each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.

Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship. Ouvert / Commentaire