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Rupi Kaur
“it isn't what we left behind
that breaks me
it's whatever we could've built
had we stayed”
Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

Marissa Meyer
“Knees suddenly weak, she reached for his forearms to stabilize herself. “You came for me.”

He beamed, looking for all the world like a selfless, daring hero.

“Don’t sound so surprised.” Dropping the cane, he pulled her into a crushing embrace that tore her away from Wolf and lifted her clean off the floor. “It turns out you are worth a lot of money on the black market.”
Marissa Meyer, Cress

Jojo Moyes
“You’re the most terrible snob, Clark."

"What? Me?"

"You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are 'not that sort of person'."

"But, I’m not."

"How do you know? You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

Irwin Shaw
“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
Irwin Shaw

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

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