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Wreck

by Catherine Newman (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 24, 2026 10:35AM

“A wife isn’t like an ultra-girlfriend or a permanent girlfriend. She’s an entirely new thing. She’s something you made together, with you as an ingredient. She couldn’t be the wife without you.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble

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“Gay is the opium of the people.”
― Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

tags: gay, queer-politics

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“You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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“Nobody love a black girl. Not even herself”
― Nicole Dennis-Benn, Here Comes the Sun

tags: black, colorism, colourism, here-comes-the-sun, jamaican

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“What you know about women,” replied Maude, “could be written in large font on the back of a postage stamp and there’d still be room for the Lord’s Prayer.”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

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