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“Lonely, ain't it?
Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.”
― Sula
Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.”
― Sula
“Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder.
And I the eye of the storm.”
― Jazz
And I the eye of the storm.”
― Jazz
“Love is never any better than the lover.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.”
― Sula
― Sula
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Trixs ☆ ˊˎ-’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Trixs ☆ ˊˎ-’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, African American, Biography, Chick-lit, Christian, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Psychology, Romance, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Young-adult, african-american-literature, coming-of-age, mystery-thriller, mental-health, drama, contemporary-romance, realistic-fiction, abuse, cultural, sociology, true-crime, banned-books, dark, novels, and urban
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