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The Wonder

by Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author)

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Cursed Daughters

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Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver

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LaBae’s Quotes

“I don't get why a person's smile is considered attractive. When someone smiles, they're showing their skeleton.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

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“He tried to hate all of humanity for being so fragile and ephemeral but he couldn't keep it up because hating everyone is the same as hating no one.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Cadáver exquisito

tags: hatred, humanity, peace, vegan

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“Because hatred gives one strength to go on; it maintains the fragile structure, it weaves the threads together so that emptiness doesn’t take over everything.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

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“We are enslaved by habits of our unexamined mind.”
― Pamela Ayo Yetunde, Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom

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“Naming children after their parents is stripping them of an identity, reminding them who they belong to.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

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