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Joy’s finger touches me, and her tongue keeps swirling stubbornly, and then I surrender. I surrender to Joy and give her everything I have and, with it, shed the image of the old Alice, and become me, at last.
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“The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind. If you do, you're screwed but good. Not right away, maybe, but sooner or later. You have to -- I don't know --you have to learn to live with yourself. You have to learn to turn back your own sheets and set a table for one without feeling pathetic. You have to be strong and confident and pleased with yourself and never give the slightest impression that you can't hack it without that certain goddamn someone. You have to fake the hell out of it.”
― More Tales of the City
― More Tales of the City
“I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“There’s an old saying: mothers raise their daughters and love their sons.”
― The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
― The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
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“If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf.”
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#ReadSoulLit Readalong - Bedrock Faith
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Discuss Bedrock Faith by Eric Charles May for #ReadSoulLit in honor of reading during Black History Month
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