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Beth’s Quotes

“That’s the way it was when you loved someone. You took them everywhere you went—whether they were alive or not.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

86 likes

“I'm just a girl."
"It is tragic how well you have been taught to say that with sadness rather than triumph.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn

tags: feminism, girl, kazimir, sarah

39 likes

“I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experience with social interaction. I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Firefight

tags: bag, bucket, epics, gerbils, interaction, nerd, ordinary, paint, people, social

35 likes

“The sun peeked over the horizon like the head of a giant radioactive manatee.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Calamity

tags: first-lines

23 likes

“and things are about to get pretty crazy in this alleyway. Even for Amsterdam.”
― Gayle Forman

tags: amsterdam-area, dutch, love

1 likes

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Beth’s Groups

Kent District Library — 399 members — last activity Jan 31, 2023 09:09AM
Information, Ideas, Excitement! 19 branches serving Kent County, Michigan. Visit us online at www.kdl.org. Make sure you add Kent District Library as ...more

Best Teen Books — 2815 members — last activity Dec 27, 2025 09:23AM
A group for librarians, teens, or other folks who enjoy the best of teen fiction, non-fiction, or graphic novels.

Goodreads Librarians Group — 304863 members — last activity 3 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

KWD/GNS Team Book Group — 20 members — last activity Jul 21, 2024 07:41AM
This is the Goodreads group for the Kentwood and Gaines teams from Kent District Library.