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“you must learn desire. Hold its fruit in your hands. Unmarry it from the hunger to be held, to be wanted, to be called from the streets like the family dog. You are not a good girl. You are not somebody’s otherness. This is not a dress rehearsal before a better kind of life. Pick up your heavy burdens and leave them at the gate. I will hold the door for you.”
― Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman

“It’s so crushingly beautiful, being human,” the mother sighs, and the daughter rolls her eyes and says, “But also so terrible and ridiculous.”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich

“You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.”
― Guillermo del Toro

“I had to become a different, stronger person before I'd even figured out who I was in the first place.”
― Megan Cummins, Atomic Hearts

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Happiness is so hard to come by. I don't understand why anyone would begrudge anyone else for managing to find some of it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“I started to understand the fundamental problem of history -- how few facts exist without the filter of perspective.”
― Allison Larkin

“I know how easily I could make my most shameful behaviors add up to a diagnosis. I've lost entire nights to reading about post traumatic stress, mentally checking off each symptom, but there's a strange letdown at the thought of everything inside me being summed up so easily.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell

“Why do any girls have to be bad apples? Why do we have to be apples at all?”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“You're all so far gone that you can't tell a human soul from food for your ambitions.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

“If returning their indifference makes me a bad woman, so be it.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

“But love in any form demands equality.”
― Erin Crosby Eckstine, Junie

“Fate has its strings, but we're the ones who twist them together with our actions. My belief in what is meant to be doesn't make me a passive player.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“I've been force-fed oppression, but I will no longer swallow its bitter taste.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“The permanence of death will always feel like a betrayal.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates

“What I forgot to earmark in that promise was that ice and apathy have ways of instantly repealing all truces and resolutions signed in sunnier moments”
― André Aciman, Arithmétique moderne réduite à un seul calcul, rendu commun à toutes les nations,

“In fascist politics, women who do not fit traditional gender roles, nonwhites, homosexuals, immigrants, “decadent cosmopolitans,” those who do not have the dominant religion, are in their very existence violations of law and order. By describing black Americans as a threat to law and order, demagogues in the United States have been able to create a strong sense of white national identity that requires protection from the nonwhite “threat.”
― Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

“There are enough people hurting you,” he whispers. “Don’t be one of them.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“It doesn't hurt for you to think about your future. We don't have to stop living because we might die. Anyone might die at any given moment, anywhere in the world. We're not an exception. We just see death more regularly than they do.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow