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Books I Once Read
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books-i-once-read · 4 months ago
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How does he fill my whole life and I am only a sliver of his?
I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel
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books-i-once-read · 4 months ago
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If he could only stop being exactly what he is, we could be happy.
I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel
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books-i-once-read · 4 months ago
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I opened my mouth to tell him I love him, but the words stick to my insides like a frightened bird, clinging to the corners of a room. 
Better by Far by Hazel Hayes
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books-i-once-read · 4 months ago
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This is the curse of being an only child of a flawed single parent. To be aware at all times that you’ll miss them when you’re gone, but be unable to fully enjoy them while they’re here. 
Better by Far by Hazel Hayes
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books-i-once-read · 5 months ago
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The arts tell us what is possible, and what is not, because, among other things, they tell us who is human and who is not.
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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books-i-once-read · 5 months ago
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A political order is premised not just on who can vote but on what they can vote for.
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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books-i-once-read · 5 months ago
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I know that all readers do not come to a text equally. Some come surviving a rape, and some come caged in their assigned bodies, and some come having spent their entire young lives in classrooms with fellow students who made mascots of them. 
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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books-i-once-read · 5 months ago
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I am filled the sense of grandeur, the beauty of being part of something bigger, even if that something is rotten.
Role Play by Clara Drummond
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books-i-once-read · 5 months ago
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I’m too insecure not to be superficial.
Role Play by Clara Drummond
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books-i-once-read · 5 months ago
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We love the memory of each other instead of each other now.
One Star Romance by Laura Hankin 
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books-i-once-read · 5 months ago
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How could she have known then that the time she thought she was wasting was actually time she spent growing?
One Star Romance by Laura Hankin 
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books-i-once-read · 5 months ago
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She’d keep finding joy, even if she never had a partner to experience it with her.
One Star Romance by Laura Hankin
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books-i-once-read · 5 months ago
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She’d become so much less afraid of men getting bored with her once she learned how not to get bored of herself.
One Star Romance by Laura Hankin 
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books-i-once-read · 5 months ago
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Maybe you’re trying to want something you don’t because you think you should.
One Star Romance by Laura Hankin
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books-i-once-read · 5 months ago
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It’s exhausting to want things.
One Star Romance by Laura Hankin
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books-i-once-read · 5 months ago
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She didn’t want to be the kind of person who clung on to something that wasn’t real just so that she didn’t have to be alone.
One Star Romance by Laura Hankin
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books-i-once-read · 5 months ago
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You decide certain things about yourself, and then it’s hard to change them.
The Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg 
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