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“Do not let your lack of money and possessions make you feel negative about your worth as a human being. Do not let your credit score, man-made poverty, and/or racism define your extreme power.”
― Tricia Hersey, Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

“The interesting question, the interesting answer, is almost always the why.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“I craved honesty, yet found dishonesty in myself. Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself? It seemed indulgent to add to the glut unless one offered illumination.”
― Patti Smith

“One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can't ever quite get rid of.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“I am only alive on Sundays when the prospect of sleeping in is on the table—lazing about”
― Kim Rashidi, Only Alive on Sundays: A Novella

“I am in love. Not with anyone”
― Kim Rashidi, Only Alive on Sundays: A Novella