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Daniela Quirke

@danielaquirke.bsky.social

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"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer." - Camus #books #music #journaling #zen 🏴 🏴 🏴 🌐 Author website: danielaquirke.com Daniela Quirke is the nom de plume for Amanda Quraishi: 🌐 amandaquraishi.com

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · Aug 8

Hey! I wrote a book! And here’s the proof… my PROOF copy!

😍📚

A middle aged white woman taking a selfie holding a copy of her debut novel.

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1h

This recent release:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/762273...

And thank you!

The Bombshell by Darrow Farr: 9780593833247 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Jezebel’s July Book Club Pick "If a book could possess “French-Girl Style,” The Bombshell would have it... effortlessly cool: a smart, sophisticated tale of sexual and political awakening...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1h

And I'm going to be real with you, friends. This is only way to make progress. You can't change people. They'll have to find it within themselves to get on board, and the best way to evoke that in them is FOMO.

Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1h

I'd much rather work with people who have already done the work and are ready to fucking GO. The rest can catch up. Or not.

Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1h

Whatever a salesman is, I'm the opposite of that.

I have ZERO desire or energy to try to convince people to do / buy / believe things - even if it's for their own good.

Like, I'm happy to present you with information and an opportunity, but if you don't see the value, that's on you babe.

Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1h

Happy #Caturday from Olive.

A gray-and-white cat sits in a patch of sunlight atop a bed, eyes closed.

Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1h

Today is CLEANING DAY. Mr. Q is in Dallas to see 'the game' and I have the whole day to clean this house top-to-bottom. I have some new candles, a new tablecloth, and a fresh audiobook.

When I'm done, I'm going to order takeout, have a luxurious bath (with a bath bomb) and watch Sinners.

Ahhhh!

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1h

As much as I love libraries, I love an independently-owned bookshop. Both are magical in different ways.

I'd love to have a blog where I just visit different indie book stores and photograph them, talk about their owners and their microcultures, etc.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 2h

This 🧵 by Dr Ezzideen.

“We were not steadfast. We were held hostage in our own land.
We could not leave. We could not change those who claimed to rule us.
We were trapped between a merciless occupier and rulers who feed on our suffering.”

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 2h

*This is referring to the non-shaper slips. The ones that used to come in different lengths, and you could get them in like black, white, and some tannish color. Full and half.

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 2h

good morning only to people who aren't actively ruining other people's lives

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 2h

I went in search of a good old-fashioned slip a couple months ago and I had an impossible time finding one. Eventually I found one that was overpriced at Dillards, but the selection was limited and it wasn't even that nice.

Do people not wear slips anymore?

Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 2h

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Nicole ✨ @sincerelynicolexo.bsky.social · 3h

Emotional intelligence includes knowing when to shut up.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 5h

It's my 40th birthday! That's right, 40 years around the sun on this raggedy planet. i know, you wanted to bless my cashapp so I can afford to go to this literary conference in New York this weekend. I won't take that from you. It's $chantallisette

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 2h

A perfect day to buy a book (or ten) from Austin's favorite independently-owned bookstore!

#austintexas #BookSky #Reading

Torch Literary Arts @torchliteraryarts.bsky.social · 2h

Today is the day!!!

Shop at BookPeople (in store and online) and 10% of your purchase will go to Torch Literary Arts.

Visit BookPeople.com

10:30 a.m. - Children's Storytime

2:00 p.m. - Torch Reading

Buy any book, gift, toy, anything, and 10% will help Torch amplify Black women writers!

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 2h

Friends, I have to tell you something. It may change your opinion of me, but I can't live forever in the closet about this.

I actually *enjoy* smooth jazz.

Yes. It's true. I have since I was a teenager living in the Bay Area, listening to KKSF.

I feel no shame.

Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 2h

This is how to Saturday.

eden @backinmyhood.neocities.org · 3h

Wake and bake + audiobook = my day starting off right

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 18h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 3h

The Portland Frog WAS sent by Hashem! I knew it!

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 18h

tweet by sketchesbyboze: thinking again about how "plague of frogs" in hebrew is actually "plague of frog," and how the rabbis took this to mean that pharaoh was terrorized by a single enormous frog

Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 15h

the word amen is displayed in front of a star

ALT: the word amen is displayed in front of a star

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Ruth Nineke @ruthnineke.bsky.social · 15h

2 things: stop reposting WaPo. Don't give them bootlicker hoes space on the feed.

And 2, it's like some of yous never watched Poirot on PBS.

*if I were the antichrist I would TOTES throw the sent to people doing legit "Christ-like" activities like admonishing the wealthy and feeding the poor*

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 15h

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 16h

wake up babe new costco sundae dropped

Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1d

a black and white cat is typing on a laptop

ALT: a black and white cat is typing on a laptop

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I have learned a lot the past two years. I'm already starting to ideate around my next one and there are *many* things I plan to do differently.

So, that 1x80k/year seems reasonable. People churning out 3+ per year, though? Incomprehensible to me.

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all. The people in charge are *literally* delusional sociopaths.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

News: I have obtained full transcripts of Peter Thiel's Secret Antichrist Lectures (as have multiple other journalists).

They were supposed to be embargoed until 9 a.m. tomorrow, but Reuters has a story up. (They may have gotten them from a different source)

www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...