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“The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me”
― Lucille Clifton

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
― audre lorde

“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
― Joan Didion

“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“There is simply too much injustice in the world. And too much remembering (of ancient grievances: Serbs, Irish) embitters. To make peace is to forget. To reconcile, it is necessary that memory be faulty and limited.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

“She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent