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    Aveda Vice
    “You don’t owe anyone a more palatable version of yourself just because it’s easier for them to swallow.”
    ― Aveda Vice, Yours, Insatiably
    tags: identity, palatable, personality
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    “I feel like the world is divided into two types of people: people who know loss and people who don't.”
    ― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died
    tags: grief, grief-and-loss, loss
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    “Maybe it’s because she didn’t want to be a dancer growing up, she wanted to be an actress, and maybe Mom only sits in when I’m being the thing she wanted to be.”
    ― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died
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    “Maybe people go to church because they want things from God. And they keep going while they’re wishing and yearning and longing for those things. But then maybe once they get those things, they realize they don’t need church anymore.”
    ― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died
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    Alisha Galvan
    “and if she were the devil, he’d turn his back on god.”
    ― Alisha Galvan, Bitter Crown of Thistle
    tags: devil, god, love, sin
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    “I have avoided the fate my father had planned for me. Surely it is I who has won, not he.”
    ― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy
    tags: arranged-marriage, escape, fate
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    “It is unlike anything I have ever seen, full of strange sights and smells, and I tumble headlong into love.”
    ― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy
    tags: adventure, belonging, love, the-unknown
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    “There was dirt under my fingernails for the first fourteen years of my life. It has most likely seeped into my blood.”
    ― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy
    tags: blood, dirt
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    “I like that he does not apologize for his looks, that he throws them down like a gauntlet.”
    ― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy
    tags: appearance, bravery, confidence, fight
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    “Is that what they teach you at the convent? That the gods demand the hearts from our bodies?”
    ― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy
    tags: duty, gods, heart, love, piety, religion
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    “Today I feel as if we are sisters in arms, and I would be honored if you would do for me what you have done for your friends.”
    ― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy
    tags: friendship, sisterhood, sisters, sisters-in-arms
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    R.L. LaFevers
    “Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.”
    ― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy
    tags: duval
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    R.L. LaFevers
    “Every time he glances at me I feel it just as surely as if he has reached out and run his finger along my soul. It is all I can do not to smile at the sheer wonder of it.”
    ― R.L. LaFevers, Grave Mercy
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    “And I would find a way to serve both my god and my heart. Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.”
    ― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy
    tags: duality, god, love, piety
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  • #15
    “He was in the studio all the time. He really thought he was a rapper now. Bless his heart—because he did take it so seriously.”
    ― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me
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  • #16
    “In that moment, I made peace with my family—by which I mean that I realized I never wanted to see them again, and I was at peace with that.”
    ― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me
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    “I realized how powerful it can be when women defy expectations.”
    ― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me
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    “I was never quite sure what all these critics thought I was supposed to be doing—a Bob Dylan impression? I was a teenage girl from the South. I signed my name with a heart. I liked looking cute. Why did everyone treat me, even when I was a teenager, like I was dangerous?”
    ― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me
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    “I don’t think Justin realized the power he had in shaming me. I don’t think he understands to this day.”
    ― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me
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    “In the Bible it says your tongue is your sword. My tongue and my sword were me singing.”
    ― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me
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    “The truth: I was comatose in Louisiana, and he was happily running around Hollywood.”
    ― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me
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    “as if gaining weight was something unkind I’d done to them personally, a betrayal. At what point did I promise to stay seventeen for the rest of my life?”
    ― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me
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    Alice Ivinya
    “She had broken me that day, and though I had collected all the pieces of me, they didn't stick together anymore.”
    ― Alice Ivinya, Feathers of Snow
    tags: broken, recovery, trauma
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    Alice Ivinya
    “You can't understand history or politics or indeed anything, until you understand the stories of a place. Stories are of the heart and of the blood.”
    ― Alice Ivinya, Feathers of Snow
    tags: fables, legends, storytelling
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    Piper Scott
    “You, dragon,” Matthieu growled, leaning forward so that he was nose to nose with Liu Wei, “will keep your opinions to yourself and listen to me.”
    ― Piper Scott, Mate
    tags: being-heard, empowerment
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    Piper Scott
    “Grief could not be brushed aside by a declaration of love, but it could be soothed by it.”
    ― Piper Scott, Peregrine
    tags: comfort, grief, loss, love
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    Piper Scott
    “but the truth is, sadness never really goes away. It sits and waits for you to remember it’s there.”
    ― Piper Scott, Peregrine
    tags: sadness
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    Stephen Graham Jones
    “This your car?’ Jade asks him back, wiping her face, finally breathing, and breathing too much now, too deep, like she’s about to just collapse into a girl-shaped column of tears and wishes.”
    ― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw
    tags: crying, girlhood, panic-attacks
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    Stephen Graham Jones
    “You said this place was haunted,” Shooting Glasses tells her. “By all the ghosts of who everybody used to want to be, before they died inside,” Jade says.”
    ― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw
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    Stephen Graham Jones
    “To put it in conclusion, sir, final girls are the vessel we keep all our hope in. Bad guys don't just die by themselves, I mean. Sometimes they need help in the form of a furie running at them, her mouth open in scream, her eyes white hot, her heart forever pure.”
    ― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw
    tags: female-rage, final-girl, fury, slasher-movies
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