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  • #2
    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #2
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Make them pay you what they would pay a white man.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  • #4
    Kristin Hannah
    “Memories- even the best of them- faded.”
    Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

  • #7
    “My pain was never more valuable than his potential.”
    Chanel Miller, Know My Name

  • #8
    “I realized how powerful it can be when women defy expectations.”
    Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

  • #9
    Jen Beagin
    “I’m direct,” Big Swiss admitted, “because I don’t care if people like me. I distrust people-pleasers. They seem phony to me, and dangerous.”
    Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #12
    “They seemed angry that I’d made myself vulnerable, more than the fact that he’d acted on my vulnerability.”
    Chanel Miller, Know My Name

  • #13
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #14
    “I encourage you to sit in that garden, but when you do, close your eyes and I'll tell you about the real garden, the sacred place. Ninety feet away from where you sit there is a spot, where Brock's knees hit the dirt, where the Swedes tackled him to the ground, yelling 'What the fuck are you doing? Do you think this is okay?'. Put their words on a plaque. Mark that spot, because in my mind I've erected a monument. The place to be remembered is not where I was assaulted, but where he fell, where I was saved, where two men declared stop, no more, not here, not now, not ever.”
    Chanel Miller, Know My Name

  • #15
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #16
    “Victims are often, automatically, accused of lying. But when a perpetrator is exposed of lying, the stigma doesn't stick. Why is it that we're wary of victims making false accusations, but rarely consider how many men have blatantly lied about, downplayed, or manipulated others to cover their own actons?”
    Chanel Miller, Know My Name

  • #17
    “I wanted to hide, but I also wanted to be seen. Both things could be true.”
    Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

  • #18
    “There have been so many times when I was scared to speak up because I was afraid somebody would think I was crazy. But I’ve learned that lesson now, the hard way. You have to speak the thing that you’re feeling, even if it scares you. You have to tell your story. You have to raise your voice.”
    Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

  • #18
    “But it bothered me that having a boyfriend and being assaulted should be related, as if I, alone, was not enough...It should have been enough to say, I did not want a stranger touching my body.”
    Chanel Miller, Know My Name

  • #19
    Sally Rooney
    “I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
    Sally Rooney, Normal People

  • #20
    Kristen Radtke
    “Or the times I've watched the people I love so unsatisfied, clawing toward connection that surpasses what I'm able to give them.”
    Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

  • #20
    “I’d been the good girl for years. I’d smiled politely while TV show hosts leered at my breasts, while American parents said I was destroying their children by wearing a crop top, while executives patted my hand condescendingly and second-guessed my career choices even though I’d sold millions of records, while my family acted like I was evil. And I was tired of it.”
    Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

  • #21
    Kristin Hannah
    “If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
    Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

  • #22
    Kristin Hannah
    “But when he looked at her—and she looked at him—they both knew that there was something worse than kissing the wrong person. It was wanting to.”
    Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

  • #23
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “If I want things to change, I have to change how I do things. And probably drastically.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  • #24
    Madeline Miller
    “That is — your friend?"
    "Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #25
    Kristin Hannah
    “I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.”
    Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

  • #26
    Jen Beagin
    “Yes, people age horribly. They suffer strokes. Their bodies and brains fall apart. But the male ego? Firmly intact until the bitter end.”
    Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

  • #27
    Sally Rooney
    “Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.”
    Sally Rooney, Normal People

  • #27
    Sally Rooney
    “It's funny the decisions you make because you like someone, he says, and then your whole life is different. I think we're at that weird age where life can change a lot from small decisions.”
    Sally Rooney, Normal People

  • #27
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Please never forget that the sun rises and sets with your smile. At least to me it does. You’re the only thing on this planet worth worshipping.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  • #28
    Jen Beagin
    “Why not say that you made a choice, that you knew what you were doing was wrong, and that you did it anyway? Why continue coasting on your trauma? It's not a good look at your age.”
    Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

  • #29
    Sally Rooney
    “He has sincerely wanted to die, but he has never sincerely wanted Marianne to forget about him. That’s the only part of himself he wants to protect, the part that exists inside her. ”
    Sally Rooney, Normal People

  • #30
    Jen Beagin
    “Sorry is just something you take off a shelf. It means nothing to me.”
    Jen Beagin, Big Swiss



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