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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

“Because you will leave and we will stay.”
― Philippe Besson

“The hearts of men are alike wherever you go. The rest is scenery.”
― Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time