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Sarah & Frederique'If spring is a whispered promise that everything can be made new, autumn is a brilliant sacrifice born of love. Because if the autumn did not love the spring, it would not fall to winter just so the spring could rise.' ~ Rachel Griffin, The Nature of Witches<br> <br> A beautiful first day of Spring, unfortunately the record warmth is harder to enjoy when you know it is because the climate crisis. If only I was one of Rachel Griffin's witches and could help to save nature 💚<br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/spring?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spring</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/thenatureofwitches?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thenatureofwitches</a> #rachelgriffin#books <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookstafed?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstafed</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookstagram?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstagram</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/reading?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/booklover?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#booklover</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookquotes?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookquotes</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookphotography?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookphotography</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/books?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/fantasyfriday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fantasyfriday</a>
Sarah & Frederique'Heroes don't get happy endings. They give them to other people.' ~ Stephanie Garber,&nbsp;Once Upon a Broken Heart<br> <br> <br> Happy Caturday everyone!<br> This is Romeo, he's my hero. He sure made my life a better place ❤️<br> <br> Do you have an animal companion in your house? I wouldn't be able to live without them!<br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/stephaniegaeber?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stephaniegaeber</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/onceuponabrokenheart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onceuponabrokenheart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/caturday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#caturday</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/catsofpixelfed?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#catsofpixelfed</a> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookstagram?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstagram</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/booklover?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#booklover</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/booknerd?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#booknerd</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookdragon?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookdragon</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bibliophile?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bibliophile</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookquotes?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookquotes</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookphotography?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookphotography</a>
銀河の凡僧<p>"About that mystifying enthusiasm a million years ago for turning over as many human activities as possible to machinery: What could that have been but yet another acknowledgment by people that their brains were no damn good?"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KurtVonnegut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KurtVonnegut</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/galapagos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>galapagos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookquotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookquotes</span></a></p>
Kelly-Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto <br> by Tricia Hersey<br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/books?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/book?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/capitalism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/poem?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/poems?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poems</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/poetry?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/selflove?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#selflove</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/selfcare?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#selfcare</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/quotes?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookquotes?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookquotes</a>
Sarah & Frederique'Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices we make are a kind of vote, making it more or less likely that free and fair elections will be held in the future. In the politics of the everyday, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.' ~ Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century<br> <br> Which books have been an inspiration for you? While most of my reading is more for escaping reality than anything else, there are many books and book characters that have inspired me, both fiction and non-fiction 💜<br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/books?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookstafed?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstafed</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookstagram?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstagram</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/reading?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/booklover?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#booklover</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookquotes?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookquotes</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookphotography?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookphotography</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/books?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/timothysnyder?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#timothysnyder</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ontyranny?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ontyranny</a>
Cohnina<p><a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/Creation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Creation</span></a>, I think, is the word I'd use. But yes, that's the deepest <a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/magic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>magic</span></a>. Making whole shared worlds, like <a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/Shakespeare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shakespeare</span></a> - maybe that's one of the highest forms [of magic].</p><p><a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/JLCarrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JLCarrell</span></a> <a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/TheShakespeareCurse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheShakespeareCurse</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/ReadersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReadersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/BookQuotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuotes</span></a> <a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuote</span></a> <a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/bookcrossing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookcrossing</span></a></p>
Irene (she/they, Sir/Mr.)<p>"You see, but you do not observe."</p><p>-- Sherlock Holmes, "A Scandal in Bohemia," Sir A.C. Doyle</p><p><a href="https://freesky.world/tags/bookquotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookquotes</span></a> <a href="https://freesky.world/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://freesky.world/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://freesky.world/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://freesky.world/tags/sherlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sherlock</span></a> <a href="https://freesky.world/tags/sherlockholmes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sherlockholmes</span></a></p>
Caron<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cozymysteries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cozymysteries</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/agathachristie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>agathachristie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/literaryquotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literaryquotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookquotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookquotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/murdermysteries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>murdermysteries</span></a></p>
marctic<p>"Claiming you're 'nonpartisan' is just a way to be self-righteous and complicit at the same time." ~~Invisible Things by Mat Johnson </p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmReading</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/BookQuotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuotes</span></a></p>
marctic<p>"Who didn't like the sweet, hysterical sound of breaking glass?" ~~Julia, Sandra Newman</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmReading</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/BookQuotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuotes</span></a></p>
David Brent 📚<p>"I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights."</p><p>- Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookQuotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuotes</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
Spiggi🎀<p>"Instead of worshipping a past that never happened, we should look to a future that we might avoid." ~ Hugh Howey, Machine Learning<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bookquotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookquotes</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
marctic<p>"I knew what mountains looked like, just as I knew of earthquakes and guns and kisses." ~~Half Way Home, Hugh Howey</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmReading</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/BookQuotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuotes</span></a></p>
Spiggi🎀<p>"The militia men considered him their General &amp; their God, &amp; when the state Attorney General announced that he was going to have Windrip indicted for having grafted $200,000 of tax money, the militia rose to Windrip's orders as though they were his private army,<br>occupying the legislative chambers &amp; all the state offices &amp; covering the streets leading up to the capital with machine guns, they herded Windrip's enemies out of town."<br>~ It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bookquotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookquotes</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FascistGOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FascistGOP</span></a></p>
Rusty Invader<p>Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.</p><p>Ernest Cline, Ready Player One<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lifehackasongorpoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lifehackasongorpoem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookquotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookquotes</span></a></p>
marctic<p>"Think of all that bullshit, the nonsense and non-sequiters, the self-aggrandisement and self-deception, the boring stupid nonsense, the pathetic attempts to impress or ingratiate, the slow-wittedness, the incomprehension and the incomprehensible, the gland-addled meandering and general suffocating dullness." ~~Look to Windward, Iain M. Banks</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmReading</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/BookQuotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuotes</span></a></p>
marctic<p>"The mask is ugly and grotesque and familiar, and we cannot stop staring at it because all monsters are mirrors." ~~Horror Movie, Paul Tremblay </p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmReading</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/BookQuotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuotes</span></a></p>
marctic<p>"Hopefully, by 2001 even the U.K. and the U.S. will have joined the civilized world and adopted the metric system." ~~The Lost Worlds of 2001, Arthur C. Clarke</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmReading</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/BookQuotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuotes</span></a></p><p>Of course Clarke's hope from 1972 has not materialized today for Americans and I fear we'll still using freedom units in 2061: Odyssey Three.</p>
Rasmus B.<p>What’s the best opening line you’ve ever read in a book? <a href="https://me.dm/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/BookQuotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuotes</span></a></p>
marctic<p>"Did you ever meet someone clever that was truly happy?" ~~The Book that Broke the World, Mark Lawrence </p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmReading</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/BookQuotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookQuotes</span></a></p>