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“Auntie has shown me how to be a strong Nish kwe—full of love, anger, humor, sorrow, and joy. Not as something perfect: She is a woman who is complex and sometimes exhausted, but mostly brave. She loves imperfect people fiercely.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

“If I'm in limbo, it's because I chose to remain there. Even inaction is a powerful choice.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

“It’s okay to listen to what people say and only hold on to the parts that resonate with you. It’s okay to leave the rest behind. Trust yourself to know the difference.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper's Daughter

“Mazina’iganan mino-mshkikiiwin aawen. Books are good medicine!”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper's Daughter

“The stilettos aren’t fuck-me shoes. They are fuck-you shoes.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper's Daughter

“‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“These are the wild women who run barefoot through the meadow, who teach new songs to the birds, who howl at the moon together. Wild women are their own kind of magic.”
― Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch

“Bad things can’t happen to people in comfy beds.”
― Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch

“All the bright pictures in my head fade and disappear as the sea rushes into me. Into my mouth, my nose, my ears, even my eyes. And suddenly, it doesn't matter. The sea is in me and I am in the sea.”
― Helen Dunmore, Ingo

“The sea's strong, and wild, and if you make a mistake, the sea will make you pay. Sometimes you pay with your life. Dad used to say that the sea doesn't hate you and it doesn't love you. It's up to you to learn its ways and keep yourself safe.”
― Helen Dunmore, Ingo

“Later,
if you faced the death of bombs and bullets
you did not do it with a banner,
you did it with only a hat to
cover your heart.
You did not fondle the weakness inside you
though it was there.
Your courage was a small coal
that you kept swallowing.”
― Anne Sexton, The Awful Rowing Toward God

“They'd think nothing of destroying the Mer, your divers. Can't you see what will happen to Limina once divers get near that wreck? Once humans know there's gold there? We're nothing to them. They don't even see us. They'll destroy our world and they won't even know they're doing it.”
― Helen Dunmore, Ingo

“... I want to comb
your hair, your beautiful hair, I
can only imagine it was smooth
as a spider web, but only those
insects know where your face is
now”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Into the Forest and all the Way Through

“What did it matter if something scared you, when it simply had to be done?”
― Kate Quinn, The Alice Network

“I am more and less than others have wanted or feared.”
― Laura E. Weymouth, A Rush of Wings

“Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, her own color, and to hell with her parents.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“The less I hear the bigger the swamp, so I smile and nod and my head becomes a faint fog horn, a lost river. ... I am still afraid I have grown up missing too much information.”
― Raymond Antrobus, The Perseverance

“And no one knew what I was missing
until a doctor gave me a handful of Lego
and said to put a brick on the table
every time I heard a sound.
After the test I still held enough bricks
in my hand to build a house
and call it my sanctuary,
call it the reason I sat in saintly silence
during my grandfather's sermons when he preached
The Good News I only heard
as Babylon's babbling echoes.”
― Raymond Antrobus, The Perseverance

“The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.”
― Ann Patchett