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#1

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

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#2

“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

tags: dream, fate, hope

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#3

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

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#4

“How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
― Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont

tags: misattributed-to-a-a-milne

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#5

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

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#6

“Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about.”
― Nicole Krauss

tags: books, writing

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#7

“I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

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#8

“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

tags: emotional-roots, identity, past, personal-history, self

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#9

“To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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#10

“The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

tags: language

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#11

“Do adults realize how lucky they are? Or do they forget that these small moments are actually small miracles? I don’t want to ever forget.”
― Stephanie Perkins , Isla and the Happily Ever After

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#12

“Everything was a broken line for me in those days. I was slipped into the empty spaces between words.”
― Betsy Cornwell, Mechanica

tags: cinderella, depression, grief, line-breaks, mechanica, mourning, steampunk, storytelling

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#13

“I don't care about probabilities. If something were one-in-a-million, I would wonder if the one had found me. It's the uncertainty that's torture.”
― Jackie Lea Sommers, Truest

tags: probability

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#14

“I'm seventeen. Seems like I only blinked and here I am. I'm speeding like a rocket toward death. I'm spiraling toward the end of now and the start of infinity. It's a countdown. But to what? Can't gift wrap eternity.”
― Jackie Lea Sommers, Truest

tags: death, eternity, life

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#15

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: life-choices-fig-trees

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#16

“She was not only grateful but angry. At life, at the way things turned out, and, illogically, at her father. How dare you leave me before I've figured out my life, she thought. How dare you leave me before I'm ready to let you go.”
― Jill Santopolo, More Than Words

tags: grief

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#17

“Those of us who embrace the feminine know its strength.”
― Betsy Cornwell

tags: feminine, femininity, god, goddess, goddesses, magic, paganism, parabola-magazine, religion-spirituality, spirituality, strength, the-feminine-divine

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#18

“It's the colors that will make you stray. They sing to you, the not-blue and the searing light, and no matter how tightly you tie yourself to the inbetween, eventually you will break free.
No one swims only in the shallow water.”
― Betsy Cornwell, Tides

tags: blue, colors, inbetween, light, mermaids, ocean, sea, selkies, swimming, tides

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#19

“Where once I prayed for forgiveness from a father God who held up huge palms and said “Thou shalt not,” now I find peace with a sister god who takes my open hands in hers and says, “You will.”
― Betsy Cornwell

tags: christianity, commandments, feminine, feminism, forgiveness, god, goddess, hands, paganism, parabola, peace, prayer, religion, spirituality, wicca, witchcraft

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#20

“When your heart is broken, it’s easier to follow rules”
― Betsy Cornwell, Mechanica

tags: depression, fairy-tales, heartbreak, love, mechanica, obedience, rules, sadness

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#21

“I had rescued myself entirely.”
― Betsy Cornwell, Mechanica

tags: cinderella, damsel-in-distress, empowerment, fairy-tales, feminism, girl-power, happy-ending, hea, hero, heroines, heroines-journey, independence, rescue, steampunk, steampunk-fairy-tales

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#22

“I have to believe it’s right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a friend.”
― Betsy Cornwell, Mechanica

tags: cinderella, companionship, compassion, fairy-tale-retellings, friends, friendship, kindness, love, steampunk, warmth

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#23

“The love between friends could create life.”
― Betsy Cornwell, Mechanica

tags: amatonormative, amatonormativity, babies, blended-families, created-family, creation, families, family, found-family, friends, friendship, life, love, nontraditional-families, queerplatonic, romantic-friendships

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#24

“She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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#25

“Sometimes people might believe in themselves, but it's not enough when they feel like they don't have support.”
― Kristina Forest, I Wanna Be Where You Are

tags: kindness, supporting-others

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#26

“But in this world, I’m unwilling to give my heart to someone just so they can inevitably break it.”
― Kristina Forest, Now That I've Found You

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#27

“I'm not okay. It was a simple thought, but there was something huge and terrifying in it. She couldn't afford to think that way. She had to be strong. Weakness was not an option, had never been an option.”
― Charlotte Nicole Davis, The Good Luck Girls

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#28

“But, more than that, Aster found herself thinking of Violet, of Zee, of Sam and Eli. People Aster had trusted despite her fears, people who had rewarded that trust. There were times when refusing to give folks a chance could be more dangerous than putting your faith in them. Times when you couldn’t do it alone. Times when you needed help.”
― Charlotte Nicole Davis, The Good Luck Girls

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#29

“It was foolish to trust anyone. To hope for the best. To play fair in an unfair world.”
― Charlotte Nicole Davis, The Good Luck Girls

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#30

“I can't do anything
but talk to the wind,
to the moon
but cry out goddamn goddamn
to stones
and to other deathless voices
that I hope will carry
us all through.”
― Joy Harjo, She Had Some Horses

tags: joy-harjo, poetry, she-had-some-horses

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