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“I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.”
― Lucille Clifton

“all the women. in me. are tired.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, nejma

“He wasted his wishes on wishing.”
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

“Sometimes just to say your own truth out loud is enough to find others like you.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“No thank you,” I said. “I don’t want to accept a drink from you, because then I would be obliged to purchase one for you in return, and I’m afraid I’m simply not interested in spending two drinks’ worth of time with you.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“english isn't a good language
to express emotion through
mostly i imagine because people
try to speak english instead
of trying to speak through it”
― Nikki Giovanni, Love Poems

“I'm having a crisis of function.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“To all of you who choose to look the other way every day because you seem more frightened of the changes that can prevent catastrophic climate change than the catastrophic climate change itself. Your silence is almost worst of all.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
― Lucille Clifton

“EARLY BIRD
Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird
And catch the worm for your breakfast plate.
If you’re a bird, be an early early bird--
But if you’re a worm, sleep late.”
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

“And so now that I am dancing, please don’t stop me.”
― Miller McKenzie, Autonomous Sun On The Platypus River: Thoughts For Walks

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamers. Bring me all of your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too rough fingers Of the world.”
― Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues