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More Books that saved 2014
"Matthew had called her harmless. Harmless. And being with him made Frankie feel squashed into a box - a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or as powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with. Frankie wanted to be a force."
— E. Lockhart (The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks)
More books that saved 2014
"She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play at rebellion but really only solidify their already dominant positions in society...but those who take some larger action that disrupts the social order. Who try to push through the doors that are usually closed to them. They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up--but then one goes insane from giving up." — E. Lockhart (The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks)
Books that ruined me in 2014
“The new Nigerian upper class is a collection of illiterates who read nothing and eat food they dislike at overpriced Lebanese restaurants and have social conversations around one subject: ‘How’s the new car behaving?’"
- Kainene Ozobia
(Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun)
More Quotes from Stuff I read in 2014
"You must learn her. You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write to her. You must remind her that you are there. You must know how long it takes for her to give up. You must be there to hold her when she is about to. You must love her because many have tried and failed. And she wants to know that she is worthy to be loved, that she is worthy to be kept. And, this is how you keep her.” ― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. You put down your things and you waited and couldn't do anything really until the lights decided. This, I told her, is how I feel.
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her
2014 reads | Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
There is nothing now but the two of them, and their love, which has waited for centuries to be made again, and as their blood flows they are no longer in love, they have become love itself.
2014 reads | Far From You by Tess Sharpe
My heart isn't simple or straightforward. It's a complicated mess of wants and needs, boys and girls: soft, rough and everything inbetween. An ever-shifting precipice from which to fall. And as it beats, it's still her name that thrums through me.
