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It isn’t too smart for a girl to be smart, her mom had always said. So she just made herself very, very small.
Happiness isn’t about doing what you like, but learning to like what you have to do.
“Reading the wrong book is almost worse than not reading any book at all,” the librarian said,
‘Knowledge is a kind of power, and the knowledge you find in this book will help you find power inside yourself. Power is not a material possession that can be given. Power is the ability to act and that must always be taken, for no one will ever give that power to you. Those who have power wish to keep it, and those who want power must learn to take it.’ ”
“You’ll look like this one day,” she said. “They hate us enough. Don’t hate yourselves, too.”
You cannot stop change any more than you can stop a tree from growing or the tide from coming in.
“And one day, Mom’ll be gone, but she’ll still be with me,” Joy said. “As long as there’s one of us left, our line never ends.”
None of us are who we were, not a year ago, not a week ago, not one minute ago. In five years I guarantee you won’t recognize yourself now.”
Every price must be paid. So why do the same people pay it, over and over again? Why do the same people always bleed?
