Book Club quote 1 by Sarah Weed https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz Include: Your name, quote, name of book, author en-us 2025-04-03 17:31:52 UTC 2025-04-08 11:20:37 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4ac.png https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3395996280 Jenna Sitors


'What is the truth? That I'm a failure and a fraud and more fragile than I thought? Or that I'm fearless. That I'm strong. I stare down at my arms, looking past the scars at the veins underneath. Purple and pulsing with life. I rise to my feet, remembering the way my father gripped my hands. The way he begged me to fight. And then that's exactly what I do" ~Something Between Bitter and Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp

]]> 2025-04-04 12:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3395996280 https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3395998458 Olivia Phillips


¨In a hut built for outcasts

Live women who combed up their own hair

Independent spinsters strong as mountain pines,

Capable women merciful as Gwoon Yum.

Talk to them and you will know

That for daughters with courage and vision,

Old laws can be swept aside,

New laws can be made¨


- The Moon Pearl by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

]]> 2025-04-04 12:21:10 UTC https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3395998458 https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3395999071 Natalie Afinowicz


" 'your dad, man oh man, he shoulda been a counselor. Anyway, I got an invite to eat at your house anytime I want. a standing invitation.'

His smile was breaking my heart."

- The inexplicable logic of my life by Benjamin Alire Sanez

]]> 2025-04-04 12:21:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3395999071 sashburn27 https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3395999583 Sofia Ashburn


"Don't you know anything?"

-> "I know a lot of things."

- When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago

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"I can't do whatever I want. I can't be whatever I want. No matter what, someone I love will get hurt."

- Love Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed

]]> 2025-04-04 12:23:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3396001448 https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3396003848 "I, Nujood, ten years old- I have chosen to answer a question. And this choice is mine alone."

]]> 2025-04-04 12:25:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3396003848 https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3396005127 Lydia Koivula

"I was worried that he would take all his anger out on me, so I went toward the door and stood in the shadows, hoping he would not see me on his way out"

-A Life Less Ordinary-Baby Halder

]]> 2025-04-04 12:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3396005127 https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3396005349 "And it's when I'm standing there this morning, in my PJs and a hijab, next to my mom and my dad, kneeling before God, that I feel a strange sense of calm. I feel like nothing can hurt me, and nothing else matters." -Does my Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel Fattah

]]> 2025-04-04 12:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3396005349 https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3396006161 "His stories gave us courage;we were no longer sick and hungry creatures, but comrades of these dashing men. When I heard my fathers voice in our dark house, it would feel as if his arms were around me again and all was right with my country. I would soon come to miss those nights very much."

-Under the Same Sky

by Joseph Kim

]]> 2025-04-04 12:27:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3396006161 https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3396007593 Maddy Mazzone


"Familia takes care of familia. We're going to make it"

-What Can't Wait by Ashley hope Perez

]]> 2025-04-04 12:29:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3396007593 https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3396007742 Heidi Fripp

("Are you wearing lipstick?") "As a matter of fact yes. Luluwongs noir red. The silver screen starlet and our hometown celebrity had the dk-red shade made vegetarian for her."

-Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee

]]> 2025-04-04 12:29:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3396007742 https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3396012241 Lindsey Johnson


"My mothers final words to me were " 'Be strong' ". On one hand , I could not believe she was leaving me there"

- Hidden Girl

By Shyima Hall

]]> 2025-04-04 12:32:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3396012241 https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3396012582 "How can a white girl know what the braid means to an African man, how a braid factors into the girls value of a bride, her beauty and quick tongue, her education, her prospects as a mother. Her virginity. All these things add value. How this white girl know?"

-The Good Braider by Terry Farish

]]> 2025-04-04 12:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3396012582 https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3396014726 Ella Chamberlain

"She is strict but I will prove myself to her. And then my mother will have a new dress, shoes for the cold season, even a new shawl made of the finest yarn. My little brother will have fruit and curds twice a day and a jacket of yak fur. Even my step father can get a new tin roof, will be the shiniest one on the mountain side."


-Sold

By Patricia McCormick

]]> 2025-04-04 12:34:40 UTC https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3396014726 https://padlet.com/sweed/gf0fqxgnykmuixfz/wish/3400590646 “I am not the kind of girl who runs away from things just because they’re hard.” - Sarah Kuhn

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