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  • #1
    Lori Gottlieb
    “Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.” Fromm was right; people didn’t use extra time earned to relax or connect with friends or family. Instead, they tried to cram more in.”
    Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

  • #2
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
    Zora Neale Hurston

  • #3
    M.L. Rio
    “How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions.”
    M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

  • #4
    M.L. Rio
    “You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
    M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

  • #5
    M.L. Rio
    “There is no comfort like complicity.”
    M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

  • #6
    Ruta Sepetys
    “I wept because i had no shoes,
    until i met a man who had no feet.”
    Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

  • #7
    Ruta Sepetys
    “How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.”
    Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

  • #8
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  • #9
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don't do that.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  • #10
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  • #11
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Make them pay you what they would pay a white man.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  • #12
    M.L. Rio
    “For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
    M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

  • #13
    M.L. Rio
    “I don't know, it's like I look at you and suddenly the sonnets makes sense. The good ones, anyway.”
    M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

  • #14
    James Baldwin
    “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
    James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

  • #15
    James Baldwin
    “for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”
    James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

  • #16
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
    "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #17
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #18
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #19
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein



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