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“God dwelled in sex and marriage just as much as He dwelled in celibacy and service,”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“What is grief, but love that’s lost its object?”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“The beautiful thing about science is that we do not know what we cannot know and we will not know until we know. It requires an incredible amount of humility to be willing to be wrong nearly all the time. But we have to be willing to be wrong, and proven wrong, in order to increase knowledge overall. It is a thankless, and essential, job. Thank goodness.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“Who benefits, my dear, when you force yourself to not feel angry?”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“When power belongs, not to the violent, and not to the wealthy and well-connected, but to the people, a different sort of future begins to present itself.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“It's remarkable how quickly a person can get used to an impossible situation. How terror and panic can start to feel familiar, even ordinary.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“Men are idiots. We complain that women are so mysterious and shit, and we never know what they want. We fuck up our relationships because we convince ourselves that it’s too hard to figure them out. But the real problem is with us. We think we’re not supposed to feel things and cry and express ourselves. We expect women to do all the emotional labor in a relationship and then act confused when they give up on us.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“A brave man helps. A coward just gives presents.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“You never know where the trapdoors are in your life, do you?”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“There’s a dark well in everyone, I think, and it never goes dry. But you drink from it at your peril. That water is poison.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“good people shine brighter in dark times.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“I think all worlds are magic. We just get used to it.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“All alcohol smells the same to me, of sadness and loss.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“I don’t want to be a Disney prince. To hell with that. If I have to be a prince, I want to be a dark one.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“but shame is like laughter. And inspiration. It doesn’t knock.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“Can you love my brain even when it is small? When it is malevolent? When it is violent? Can you love it even when it does not love me?”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether