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“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“The conversation went on for another half hour, before this man's girlfriend, who had not said much of anything until then, remarked, Being a woman, you can't just say you don't want a child. You have to have some big plan or idea of what you're going to do instead. And it better be something great. And you had better be able to tell it convincingly - before it even happens - what the arc of your life will be.”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1

“Never worry what other people think of you, because no one ever thinks of you.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 2

“I drink coffee for the taste, of course, since caffeine is the last thing I need. Most of the things I do in life are for flavor, not necessity”
― Emery Lord, When We Collided

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“No matter what heaven you believe in, your time on this earth will end. What I'm saying is that you should listen--really listen--to the slosh of the waves and the distant call of pacific birds. You should feel a boy's pulse against your cheek; you should fill you lungs with ocean air. While you can, I mean. You should do these things while you still can.”
― Emery Lord

“Not a day on your calendar should ever be empty. It's bad luck. Twenty-four hours of wasted opportunity.”
― John Corey Whaley

“Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“Do you always focus on what you're giving up, rather than what you'll be gaining? Some things are worth pursuit regardless of the cost.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“She tells me words give people permission to be their fullest self and aren't these the poems I most needed to hear?”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“Never trust anyone who holds so strictly to decorum.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“The worst crime I could commit in his eyes was to do anything for my own pleasure, anything outside of my daughterly duties. Evidence of a will of my own was seen as the ultimate betrayal.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen