Hannah Cassie
1114 ratings (3.55 avg)
405 reviews
more photos (5)

#64 best reviewers

Hannah Cassie

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Hannah Cassie.

https://www.goodreads.com/hannahcassie

Loading...
Gabby Rivera
“home, alone in my room, with the sounds of #2 and #5 trains rumbling in the distance, I started with a letter to myself. Dear Juliet, Repeat after me: You are a bruja. You are a warrior. You are a feminist. You are a beautiful brown babe. Surround yourself with other beautiful brown and black and indigenous and morena and Chicana, native, Indian, mixed race, Asian, gringa, boriqua babes. Let them uplift you. Rage against the motherfucking machine. Question everything anyone ever says to you or forces down your throat or makes you write a hundred times on the blackboard. Question every man that opens his mouth and spews out a law over your body and spirit. Question every single thing until you find the answer in a daydream. Don’t question yourself unless you hurt someone else. When you hurt someone else, sit down, and think, and think, and think, and then make it right. Apologize when you fuck up. Live forever. Consult the ancestors while counting stars in the galaxy. Hold wisdom under tongue until it’s absorbed into the bloodstream. Do not be afraid. Do not doubt yourself. Do not hide Be proud of your inhaler, your cane, your back brace, your acne. Be proud of the things that the world uses to make you feel different. Love your fat fucking glorious body. Love your breasts, hips, and wide-ass if you have them and if you don’t, love the body you do have or the one you create for yourself. Love the fact that you have ingrown hairs on the back of your thighs and your grandma’s mustache on your lips. Read all the books that make you whole. Read all the books that pull you out of the present and into the future. Read all the books about women who get tattoos, and break hearts, and rob banks, and start heavy metal bands. Read every single one of them. Kiss everyone. Ask first. Always ask first and then kiss the way stars burn in the sky. Trust your lungs. Trust the Universe. Trust your damn self. Love hard, deep, without restraint or doubt Love everything that brushes past your skin and lives inside your soul. Love yourself. In La Virgen’s name and in the name of Selena, Adiosa.”
Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

Gabby Rivera
“It made sense that these adult women worked hard on their friendships, even when sex and romantic love weren't part of the equation. It made me wonder about all the ways that we are able to love each other and how movies and TV make it seem like you have to discard people once they break your heart or once the love disappears. Maybe that was a horrible lie, a complete disservice to real love.”
Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

Gabby Rivera
“I'm going to love you without being in love with you.”
Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

Gabby Rivera
“Libraries are safe but also exciting. Libraries are where nerds like me go to refuel. They are safe-havens where the polluted noise of the outside world, with all the bullies and bro-dudes and anti-feminist rhetoric, is shut out. Libraries have zero tolerance for bullshit. Their walls protect us and keep us safe from all the bastards that have never read a book for fun. I”
Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

Gabby Rivera
“It made me wonder about all the ways that we are able to love each other and how movies and TV make it seem like you have to discard people once they break your heart or once the love disappears.”
Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

103480 Iskriptus Is Back — 10 members — last activity Aug 13, 2016 12:07PM
Iskriptus Book Club
201929 Tome Topple Readathon — 3004 members — last activity Sep 10, 2023 03:39PM
The next round of the Tome Topple Readathon will take place from midnight in your time zone on February 7th to 11:59pm in your time zone on February 2 ...more
15807 Queereaders — 20725 members — last activity 1 hour, 0 min ago
A group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and supporters interested in fun and stimulating conversation about books, movies, art, ...more
168 Heathens, Pagans and Witches — 2425 members — last activity Dec 03, 2025 12:14AM
A group for any and all pagans, witches and heathens to discuss books related to spirituality. Any type of pagan is welcome here - Wiccan, eclectic, d ...more
840661 the Howling Pack — 270 members — last activity Sep 14, 2021 04:01AM
Hello Wolves! I really hope you're doing good and that you're ready for some randomness (is that a word?) haha UPDATE: We're doing monthly buddy rea ...more
More of Hannah Cassie’s groups…
year in books
Lady Tea
3,578 books | 888 friends

Tamiflu
467 books | 4 friends

Kimmi
1,653 books | 110 friends

Rosie
499 books | 4,107 friends

Arta
1,612 books | 1,131 friends

Elise (...
383 books | 3,447 friends

Shantal
1,975 books | 68 friends

Sunshin...
247 books | 4,697 friends

More friends…
Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny HanOur Dark Duet by Victoria SchwabCold Summer by Gwen Cole
YA Novels of 2017
1,098 books — 6,565 voters
Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris
Can't Wait Books of 2013
2,492 books — 11,693 voters

More…



Polls voted on by Hannah Cassie

Lists liked by Hannah Cassie