“But belonging meant denying who he was. Living as something he wasn’t had nearly torn him apart from the inside out. But he also loved his family, and his community. It was bad enough being an outsider; what would happen if they just couldn’t–or wouldn’t–accept him for who he was?”
― Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys
book club
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Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
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The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes
“I heard cats don’t just purr when they’re happy, but they also purr when they’re stressed as a way of self-soothing.”
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Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay
“Utang na loob: a debt from within. From the heart. It is a debt you did not ask for and will never pay off but must always try to. It is gratitude for the ancestors who brought you into existence, for the family who raised you, for the community who helped you in ways direct and indirect, visible and invisible. It is acknowledgment that none of us are alone.”
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― Randy Ribay, Everything We Never Had