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“If I was to die here, on this beach, I wanted to have them closed anyway. I wanted a blank canvas upon which I could paint my most treasured memories of Caleb.”
― Bella Forrest, A Chase of Prey

“What a hypocrite I am; I spend my whole life reading books that allude to happiness, when I refuse to experience it. Sadness is an emotion you can trust. It is stronger than all of the other emotions. It makes happiness look fickle and untrustworthy. It pervades, lasts longer, and replaces the good feelings with such an eloquent ease you don’t even feel the shift until you are suddenly wrapped in its chains. How hard we strive for happiness, and once we finally have the elusive feeling in our grasp, we hold it briefly, like water as it trickles through our fingers. I don’t want to hold water. I want to hold something heavy and solid. Something I can understand. I understand sadness, and so I trust it. We are meant to feel sadness, if only to protect us from the brief spiels of happiness. Darkness is all I’ll ever know; maybe the key is to make poetry out of it.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Marrow

“I imagine that being wanted is the greatest feeling. A feeling that solidifies your stay in this life, justifies it.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Marrow

“Refuse the anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgment.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic

“How odd to be made of flesh, balanced on bone, and filled with a soul you’ve never met.”
― Colleen Hoover, Never Never

“I’m learning that “myth” doesn’t mean what I thought it did. It really means, “based on truth” and the truth is terrifying.”
― Amy A. Bartol, Indebted

“She saw it over and over again in her male patients, she said—it could probably qualify as an epidemic among American men: this stubborn reluctance to embrace our wholeness—this stoic denial that we had come from our mothers as well as our fathers. It was sad, really—tragic. So wasteful of human lives, as our wars and drive-by shootings kept proving to us; all one had to do was turn on CNN or CBS News. And yet, it was comic, too—the lengths most men went to to prove that they were “tough guys.”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

“The brutality was shocking. Disgraceful acts of inhumanity. No one wanted to fall into the hands of the enemy. But it was growing harder to distinguish who the enemy was.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“could have told him there was no sense in rushing toward being dead. It would find you soon enough, and before it did there were pleasures to make your heart hurt less.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“In those pictures, people would be out on boats and fishing, and it wasn’t even for dinner. I’d read that they did it recreationally back then. Unbelievably, they would throw their dinner back in the water and try and catch it again. I guess it shouldn’t be a shock that most of that DNA had died off. Who threw away their own dinner? Sometimes I really didn’t understand those people. Dax”
― Donna Augustine, The Hunt

“One speech can sway hundreds, one lie change the minds of thousands, and once they are seduced by their fear and lies and a charismatic charlatan who feeds on their basest instincts, no amount of fact or truth or reality will shake them from their madness.”
― Karpov Kinrade, Silver Flame

“I guess it's part of survival that we so easily adapt to the circumstances in which we find ourselves.”
― Karpov Kinrade, Moonlight Prince

“In dim ways he recognised in man the animal that had fought itself to primacy over the other animals of the Wild.”
― Jack London, Jack London: The Collected Works

“Down below where he lived was the ignoble, and he wanted to purge himself of the ignoble that had soiled all his days, and to rise to that sublimated realm where dwelt the upper classes. All his childhood and youth had been troubled by a vague unrest; he had never known what he wanted, but he had wanted something that he had hunted vainly for until he met Ruth. And now his unrest had become sharp and painful, and he knew at last, clearly and definitely, that it was beauty, and intellect, and love that he must have. During”
― Jack London, Jack London: The Collected Works

“In face of the facts that modern man lives more wretchedly than the cave-man, and that his producing power is a thousand times greater than that of the cave-man, no other conclusion is possible than that the capitalist class has mismanaged, that you have mismanaged, my masters, that you have criminally and selfishly mismanaged.”
― Jack London, Jack London: The Collected Works

“My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown-up people and the world they belonged to. She felt as if she had lived a long, long time.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess [with Biographical Introduction]

“She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett

“It was a way of hers always to want to spring into any fray in which someone was made uncomfortable or unhappy.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess [with Biographical Introduction]

“her power of telling stories and of making everything she talked about seem like a story, whether it was one or not.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess [with Biographical Introduction]

“It’s true that love can be hard on a person—the act of loving someone the way they need to be loved instead of how you want to love them, I mean. It takes a lot of effort to make someone else’s desires and troubles your own. You have to want it more than anything. And you have to want it whether they notice or not.” Her voice caught, and a tear was hastily wiped away. “Because that’s the nature of the thing: to care so much that it doesn’t matter if they ever reciprocate. If you really feel that way, you can’t hurt them. You just can’t. And when they hurt you, you forget it right away.”
― Kristina Meister, Cinderella Boy

“A woman doesn’t need to read minds in order to speak to another woman. We have a language, especially when danger is near.”
― Claire Legrand, The Empirium Trilogy Ebook Bundle

“How it was always girls who ended up stripped and dead like roadkill. How it didn’t matter how afraid or how careful you were—it could always be you.”
― Simone St. James, The Sun Down Motel

“It could still be her now. It could be her tomorrow, or the next day, or the next. It could be Marnie, it could be Helen. It could be Viv’s sister back home in Illinois. This was the reality: It wasn’t just these girls. It could always, always be her or someone she knew.”
― Simone St. James, The Sun Down Motel

“This is a hunting knife, but it works for what you want. Small enough to fit in a purse. Sharp enough that you mean business.” She looked up to see that he was smiling at her. “You can even take it jogging in the park. Some pervert comes up to flash you—boom! At least, if I were a girl, that’s what I would do.”
― Simone St. James, The Sun Down Motel

“I recognize this patois so carelessly/violently flung in my direction. “Batty bwoy!” Meaning less-than-man who is penetrated by or penetrates another less-than-man. I realize this phrase is sexual. This phrase is about sex. It’s like shouting out, “You have bum sex!” I’ve heard it in music, in songs from Jamaica that call for gay men to be killed.”
― Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

“Broken / Home Because the turtle carries its home on its back, it does not have to search for one. It is born with a soft shell that hardens as it grows. The turtle’s backbone is part of its shell, meaning an accident or attack could break the turtle’s back, leaving the turtle with a broken home it cannot escape from.”
― Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

“Men Are Sandcastles Men are sandcastles made out of pebbles and the bucket is patriarchy: if you remove it, we fear we won’t be able to hold ourselves together, we pour in cement to fill the gaps to make ourselves concrete constructions.”
― Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

“You both need to understand the black woman, black man, black trans person is always last to be thought of as attractive in this white supremacist society. We are all—black and white alike —shown a beauty standard of light skin and ‘good hair,’ maybe big lips, maybe a big bum, but hardly ever on someone with darker skin. When a black person says they’re only into white people, that’s internalized racism. When a white person says they’re only into black people, that’s fetishization, which is also a form of racism. If their skin or racialized features matter more to you than the person within, that’s racism.”
― Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

“I always saw black excellence around me and online but it didn’t feel like it was mine because I was not perceived as fully black. I felt queerness made me even less black. Being both black and queer, affirming that I exist, I am here and I have been here long before this moment, the first people were black and queerness predates its modern meaning. Queerness predates its derogatory meaning. Queerness predates colonialism and Christianity. Queerness predates any hate attached to it. I call myself black. I call myself queer. I call myself beautiful. I call myself eternal. I call myself iconic. I call myself futuristic.”
― Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo