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“Wer als Werkzeug nur einen Hammer hat, sieht in jedem Problem einen Nagel.”
― Paul Watzlawick

“Gern hätte er Europa jetzt aus der internationalen Weltraumstation ISS gesehen. Wo sonst die feinen Adern und leuchtenden Knoten des Lichtsystems bis ins All strahlten, musste über weiten Flächen Dunkelheit liegen.”
― Marc Elsberg, Blackout. Morgen ist es zu spät

“Als ich ein Kind war, sagte ich, ich will keine Frau werden. Warum, wenn es so schmerzhaft ist und so unglückselig. Aber jetzt da ich erwachsen bin, bin ich stolz, dass ich sie bin.”
― Waris Dirie, Wustenblume

“Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Es ist schwer die soziale Brille mit der auch ich gelernt habe die Welt zu betrachten, abzunehmen und eine andere Perspektive einzunehmen. Aber es ist nicht unmöglich.”
― Tupoka Ogette, exit RACISM: rassismuskritisch denken lernen

“I wasted all those yesterdays and am completely out of tomorrows.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“It is only one world in infinite universes where this impossible happiness exists, but that is what makes it so valuable.”
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds

“And while my story is terrible, every woman has faced a man’s wickedness to some degree. Even you.”
― Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary

“Reading lets us live in someone else’s shoes. Literature builds bridges; it makes our world larger, not smaller.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“...it is sad, of course, to forget.
But it is a lonely thing, to be forgotten.
To remember when no one else does.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“I made it fifty-fifty. Which is the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“people think intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid

“When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things. (Page 35)”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.”
― Elliot Page

“A society that allows us to destroy our pets as soon as they start shitting indoors but demands that humans be kept alive at any cost. A society that pretends to care about dignity and quality of life but no longer understands the meaning of either.”
― Joanna Wallace, You'd Look Better as a Ghost

“To be with her is a sin, to be without her is a tragedy.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“The maternal habit of a lifetime, feeling guilty no matter which she chose.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“Why does the word “sociopath” make people feel more than it makes them think?”
― Patric Gagne, Sociopath

“Bury my bones in the midnight soil, plant them shallow and water them deep, and in my place will grow a feral rose, soft red petals hiding sharp white teeth.”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

“You are the kind of bloom that thrives in any soil.”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

“Many people think a trans woman’s deepest desire is to live in her true gender, but actually it is to always stand in good lighting.”
― Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

“She knew that no matter how you self-identify ultimately, chances are that you succumb to becoming what the world treats you as.”
― Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby