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#1

“I hate when assholes have talent. I want to live in a world where good people rule at everything and shitty people suck at everything.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

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#2

“... [T]he bravest people aren’t the ones that pretend they’re fine when they’re not. It’s the ones that admit they aren’t fine but carry on anyway.”
― Courtney Peppernell, Keeping Long Island

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#3

“We wrestle with the things we can’t explain easily, and from that struggle, we draw our faith and find love and hope.”
― Jen Jensen, The Politics of Love

tags: faith, love

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#4

“Imperfection is beautiful. To anyone who has ever felt broken beyond repair, this is for you. If you’ve ever been excluded, or told you were not enough, know that you are enough, and beautifully complete.”
― Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

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#5

“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

tags: african-americans, being-yourself, blacks, growing-up, race-relations, racism, self

495 likes

#6

“Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

tags: political-philosophy, resist, tyranny

50 likes

#7

“Why settle for being a son of the system, when you can mother a movement?”
― Romina Garber, Lobizona

tags: feminism, revolution

20 likes

#8

“That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

tags: trust

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#8

“Sometimes heartbreak is as simple as staring at the shelf of chocolate in the grocery store aisle and not knowing which one to choose because you used to always get her favorite.”
― Courtney Peppernell, Keeping Long Island

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#9

“I soon learned that the quickest way to bridge the race gap was through language.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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#10

“Good intention" is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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#12

“The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

tags: books, knowledge

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#13

“I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

tags: african-americans, blacks, life, reality, world

396 likes

#14

“You might one day be offered the opportunity to display symbols of loyalty. Make sure that such symbols include your fellow citizens rather than exclude them.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: The Book to Help You Understand Why Democracy Is Failing In 2025

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#15

“Sometimes reality strays so far from what’s rational that we can only explain it through fantasy.”
― Romina Garber, Lobizona

tags: fantasy, storytelling

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#16

“When someone deviates from an accepted norm, they signal a gap in the system. A hole that hasn’t been plugged. The danger with exposing a foundation’s failings is it opens the door to the possibility that it’s a faulty structure altogether and should be torn down and built anew.”
― Romina Garber, Lobizona

tags: norm, revolution, system

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#17

“Now go forth and shatter every convention.”
― Romina Garber, Lobizona

tags: inspirational

16 likes

#18

“I'm not dating the 12% of you that I understand, I'm dating 100% of you. Including all your secrets that I don't know.”
― Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

tags: love, relationship, romance

26 likes

#19

“It's like the older you get the more you forget that you can change things.”
― Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

tags: adulting

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#20

“You don't get to decide what's important for us. You can choose for yourself, but no one else.”
― Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

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#21

“To be loved, accepted, supported, and included for exactly who you are, with no expectation of change? I think it’s the best privilege there is.”
― Jen Jensen, The Politics of Love

tags: inclusion, love, privilege, support

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#22

“Something in the middle of her was frozen. The fire of grief and guilt was replaced with an iceberg. Somewhere on it, a polar bear was starving.”
― Jen Jensen, The Politics of Love

tags: mental-health

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#23

“It must be nice to live in a world where you don’t see the darkness in people.”
― Kate McLaughlin, What Unbreakable Looks Like

tags: darkness, sexual-assault

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#24

“Me against the world is frightening. Us against the world is comforting.”
― Kate McLaughlin, What Unbreakable Looks Like

tags: activist, teamwork

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#25

“I can’t imagine what you’ve been through, but I want to understand you, okay? I want to help you get through this. If you want to talk, I’m here. If you don’t . . . well, I’m still here. Always.”
― Kate McLaughlin, What Unbreakable Looks Like

tags: allyship, empathy

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#26

“You did nothing wrong. I’m going to keep telling you that until you believe it.”
― Kate McLaughlin, What Unbreakable Looks Like

tags: empowerment, support

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#27

“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?”
― Sophie Scholl

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#28

“I was a dandelion. They could cut me down repeatedly and I’d always grow back.”
― Abigail de Niverville, We Go Together

tags: inspirational

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#29

“Sometimes life isn’t dramatic. It’s allowed to be quiet.”
― Abigail de Niverville, We Go Together

tags: inspirational, life

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#30

“The patriarch had grabbed the girls too dark to be visible in the world’s eyes; whose languages fell on deaf ears; whose very homes at the edge of society pushed them too far into the shadows for notice.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents

tags: antisemitism, racism

3 likes

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