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“I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace

“A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence. ”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.”
― Arthur Golden

“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“One of the best ways to free yourself to what you want is to feel secure in your ability to say no to what you don’t”
― Jaclyn Friedman, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl's Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety

“When women act on behalf of our own sexual desires, we get blamed for being raped, for the demise of modern masculinity, for men’s cheating, for getting cervical cancer, for street harassment, even for earthquakes.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl's Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety

“Paying attention to your own desires and limites teaches you to trust yourself, to be strong on your own behalf.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl's Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety

“Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“If you are deaf, dumb, and blind to what’s happening in the world, you’re under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what’s happening and you don’t do anything but sit on your ass, then you’re nothing but a punk.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“The schools we go to are reflections of the society that created them. Nobody is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“Everything you love
is from a different world.
Hungry,
you turn your nose up
at my peas and rice.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“There was only so much trouble you could get into before the threat of more trouble wasn’t even a threat anymore. At some point, you’d waded so far in you had no choice but to paddle through the middle, if you had any chance of making it to the other side.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“I am about life. I’m gonna live as hard as i can and as full as i can until i die. And i’m not letting these parasites, these oppressors, these greedy racist swine make me kill my children in my mind, before they are even born.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“You died.
I cried.
And kept on getting up.
A little slower.
And a lot more deadly.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“I believe in living.
I believe in birth.
I believe in the sweat of love
and in the fire of truth.

And i believe that a lost ship,
steered by tired, seasick sailors,
can still be guided him
to port.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“If the worst sin of all was betraying others, then what about people who lied to themselves?”
― Jodie Picoult

“Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center.”
― Jodie Picoult

“What if love wasn’t the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?”
― Jodie Picoult

“Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.”
― Jodie Picoult

“As he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn’t have to be shouted at you to make you bleed; a vow didn’t have to be whispered to you yo make you believe. Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.”
― Jodie Picoult

“Biblical justice was antiquated, or so she had taught. You couldn’t hack off the hand of a thief; you couldn’t stone a murderer to death. A more advanced society took care of its justice in a courtroom—something Laura had advocated until about five years ago. A trial might be more civilized, but emotionally, it couldn’t possibly pack as much satisfaction.”
― Jodie Picoult

“If your unicorn shifts disconcertingly between a goat, a horse, a rhinoceros, a marine mammal from the North Atlantic, assorted Tibetan ungulates and a six-eyed ass whose ears will terrify, the work of this book is almost done.”
― Chris Lavers, The Natural History of Unicorns

“If everyone else’s opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?”
― Jodie Picoult

“Death wasn't something you could control. In fact, it would always have the upper hand.”
― Jodie Picoult

“Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that’s because it’s all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on.”
― Jodie Picoult

“Something still exists as long as there’s someone around to remember it.”
― Jodie Picoult