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  • #1
    Leigh Bardugo
    Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

  • #2
    Marie Lu
    “We were never meant to exist, Adelina," he says. "And we will never exist again. But we cannot take the entire world with us." He meets my gaze. "No matter how it has wronged us.”
    Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

  • #3
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #4
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but mine.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

  • #5
    James Dashner
    “Kill me. If you’ve ever been my friend, kill me.”
    James Dashner, The Death Cure

  • #6
    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    Anne Tyler

  • #7
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #8
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “My words are unerring tools of
    destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #9
    “The difference between justice and revenge comes down to who's telling the story.”
    Julie Clark, The Lies I Tell: A Novel

  • #10
    Adalyn  Grace
    “Tell me,' I demand, trying to still my trembling hands. 'Did I do something to deserve this?'
    'You did nothing but what you were created to do. That is your fate, and it is why you were given that gift, tonight. Your journey is one I do not envy. It is one that will leave many scars. But those scars will heal, and in them you will find yourself. You will find what you are supposed to do.”
    Adalyn Grace, All the Tides of Fate

  • #11
    Isabel Wilkerson
    “Jim Crow had a way of turning everyone against one another, not just white against black or landed against lowly, but poor against poorer and black against black for an extra scrap of privilege.”
    Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

  • #12
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Life, inexhaustible, goes on. And we do too. Carrying our wounds and our medicines as we go. Ours is an amazing, a spectacular, journey in the Americas. It is so remarkable one can only be thankful for it, bizarre as that may sound. Perhaps our planet is for learning to appreciate the extraordinary wonder of life that surrounds even our suffering, and to say Yes, if through the thickest of tears.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

  • #13
    Tomi Adeyemi
    “Despite all the pain he caused, I didn't know how to breathe without my brother in this world.”
    Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Virtue and Vengeance

  • #14
    Tomi Adeyemi
    You carry all of us in your heart. We shall live in every breath you take. Every incantation you speak.
    Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Virtue and Vengeance

  • #15
    Andrew Solomon
    “To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment to every aspect of him, is to achieve parenthood's self-regarding, yet unselfish, abandon. It is astonishing how often such mutuality had been realized - how frequently parents who had supposed that they couldn't care for an exceptional child discover that they can. The parental predisposition to love prevails in the most harrowing of circumstances. There is more imagination in the world than one might think.”
    Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

  • #16
    Andrew Solomon
    “Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not. We heal our wounds with the love we wish we’d received, but are often blind to the wounds we inflict.”
    Andrew Solomon, Far From The Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

  • #17
    Bessel van der Kolk
    “Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.”
    Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

  • #18
    Bessel van der Kolk
    “It takes enormous trust and courage to allow yourself to remember.”
    Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma



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