Adele > Adele's Quotes

“I would like to potter about, hopefully putting more good than bad into the world and finding ways to be of service, but otherwise raising my child, cultivating my garden, and enjoying the company of my family and friends and the many magnificent, tattered volumes on my bookshelves.”
― Cathy Rentzenbrink

“Then I learned that I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow. I would have done that toil a thousand times to keep such power in my hands.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the colour purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up flowers, wind, water, a big rock.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“If feminism can understand the patriarchy, it's important to question why so many feminists struggle to understand whiteness as a political structure in the very same way.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

“Nalan thought that one of the endless tragedies of human history was that pessimists were better at surviving than optimists, which mean that, logically speaking, humanity carried the genes of people who did not believe in humanity.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

“Beyond the obvious demands - an end to sexual violence, an end to the wage gap - feminism must be class-conscious, and aware of the limiting culture of the gender binary. It needs to recognise that disabled people aren't inherently defective, but rather that non-disabled people have failed at creating a physical world that serves all. Feminism must demand affordable, decent, secure housing, and a universal basic income. It should demand pay for full-time mothers and free childcare for working mothers. It should recognise that we live in a world in which women are constantly harangued into being lusted after, but punishes sex workers for using that situation to make a living. Feminism needs to thoroughly recognise that sexuality is fluid, and we need to dream of a world where people are not violently policed for transgressing rigid gender roles. Feminism needs to demand a world in which racist history is acknowledged and accounted for, in which reparations are distributed, in which race is completely deconstructed.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

“Religion for her had always been a source of hope, resilience and love - a lift that carried her up from the basement of darkness into a spiritual light. It pained her that the same lift could just as easily take others all the way down. The teachings that warmed her heart and brought her closer to all humanity, regardless of creed, colour or nationality, could be interpreted in such a way that they divided, confused and separated human beings, sowing seeds of enmity and bloodshed.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

“It is both simple and profound to consider the vastness of human experience that sits on one small shelf of books”
― Cathy Rentzenbrink, Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books

“Infecting each other like this is how we maintain ourselves as human is what I think.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“Her mind had fully shut down, her body was already decomposing and her soul was chasing a betta fish”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

“Sometimes where you feel most safe is where you least belong”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

“Because I'm an angel."
"You are." He stretched out his arm and patted me on the head. "And I'm platonically in love with you.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I tremble, I quiver, like the leaf in the hedge, as I sit dangling my feet, on the edge of the bed, with a new day to break open. I have fifty years, I have sixty years to spend. I have not yet broken into my hoard. This is the beginning.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“The veils drop between us. I am admitted to the warmth and privacy of another soul.”
― Woolf Virginia, The Waves

“I catch your eye. I, who had been thinking myself so vast, a temple, a church, a whole universe, confined and capable of being everywhere on the verge of things and here too, am now nothing but what you see.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves