Raquel > Raquel's Quotes

“But maybe that’s what we all are—halfway-broken people searching for things that will smooth our jagged edges.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“Make people cry, and then make them laugh,” my dad would say. “But most of all, make sure you’re telling a good story.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“Sometimes I feel like I'm playing at being an adult, like I'm constantly looking around, waiting for a real adult to tell me what to do if my garbage disposal starts making a weird sound or if I should be putting more money in my Roth IRA. I am just...I feel like a complete mess.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“I guess I just thought I'd have everything figured out by now. I'm almost thirty, and I don't know if I feel any closer than when I was twenty-one or even twenty-five. There's so much pressure to have all of this shit figured out, and I don't have a clue what I'm doing.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“Every time I imagined adulthood, it looked different from this reality.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

“Ipsa scientia potestas est.

Knowledge itself is power.”
― Francis Bacon, Meditations Sacrae and Human Philosophy

“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”
― Holly Black, Tithe

“If she wanted change, she had to smash the entire system. Only then could it be rebuilt.”
― Rachel Menard, Game of Strength and Storm

“A cabeça e o corpo da avó estavam a morrer, qualquer pessoa podia ver isso, só que a cabeça estava a morrer mais depressa do que o corpo e, se isso não magoava o corpo da avó, magoava o meu.”
― Dulce Maria Cardoso, Eliete

“Então a metrópole afinal é isto”
― Dulce Maria Cardoso, O Retorno

“Os dias de férias eram demasiado longos para as miúdas, o cansaço arrastava-os ainda mais, a infância era, como sempre, demasiado longa na sua brevidade. A infância longa e a vida breve.”
― Dulce Maria Cardoso, Eliete

“The care and maintenance of a relationship had been a shield against self-introspection.”
― Minda Honey, The Heartbreak Years: A Memoir

“That there are no real rules that govern why some are born in turmoil and others never know a single day in which the next seems an ill-considered bet. It’s all lottery, Ana, all chance. It’s the flick of a coin, and we are born.”
― Gabriela Garcia, Of Women and Salt

“I thought, for the first time, My God. Nobody asked you either, Mary. Nobody asked if God could build a temple out of you, if you wanted to turn your life into an offering.”
― Gabriela Garcia, Of Women and Salt

“María Isabel thought it had always been women who wove the future out of the scraps, always the characters, never the authors. She knew a woman could learn to resent this post, but she would instead find a hundred books to read.”
― Gabriela Garcia, Of Women and Salt

“What kind of fear is credible? There are so many kinds of fear.”
― Gabriela Garcia, Of Women and Salt

“I believe family is whoever we point to. I did not just have you. You did not simply happen to me. I chose. I saw the possibilities and I chose and I would not judge the woman who chooses differently.”
― Gabriela Garcia, Of Women and Salt

“Shame and humiliation are self-imposed emotions, and from here on out, I choose not to feel them.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“He will not kill me. He does not get to make me a statistic.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“This body of mine is not big enough to contain the scale of emotion coursing through me. How could I feel a rage like this, and not be able to tear the sky open and scorch the earth?”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“The entitled assholes of the world are sustained by girls who forgive too easily.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“How could her body be a woman's body, if it didn't house a woman?”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“Autumn and winter had always been her favorite seasons. They felt quiet, like the earth was at rest, preparing itself for the warmer months ahead.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna