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“When you come to one of the many moments in life where you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“And I think about all the things we could be
if we were never told our bodies were not built for them.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“The world is almost peaceful when you stop trying to understand it.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“Don’t you see?” she asked. “This is our homeland, too. We shouldn’t have to wreak havoc on the land to be seen as citizens! We shouldn’t have to.”
― Alyssa Cole, An Extraordinary Union

“A man can live his whole life following the rules set down by happenstance and the cash-coated bait of security-cosseted morality; an entire lifetime and in the end he wouldn’t have done one thing to be proud of.”
― Walter Mosley, Down the River Unto the Sea

“She wouldn’t forget that somewhere, beneath the duties and the obligations, she still deserved joy.”
― Courtney Milan, Once Upon a Marquess

“But I’ve learned that I’m stronger than hard, better than pain, and that with enough luck, horrible can go away.”
― Courtney Milan, Once Upon a Marquess

“Criminality, once it touched black life, was a stain hard to remove.”
― Attica Locke, Bluebird, Bluebird

“I want to live strong. God, I want to live. Then I won’t mind dying so much.”
― Falguni Kothari, My Last Love Story

“I thought I would die wanting you.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Cold-Hearted Rake

“You can be strong and have moments of incredible despair. Those moments are not weaknesses. They are simply moments. And they are not you.”
― Alisha Rai, Hate to Want You

“There is no point getting angry at a bad hand, he had used to say. Especially if the dealer cheated when distributing the cards. Anger leads to mistakes. Don’t get angry; that’s what they want. Get calm. They’ll never expect you to do that. Don’t get angry; get creative. Take the hand you have and see whether you might not be holding something your enemy has overlooked. Don’t get angry at the cards; get the dealer out of the game.”
― Courtney Milan, After the Wedding

“Ah, mija! There you go! Rivers flow. A body of water that remains stagnant is just a cesspool, mi amor! It’s time to move, flow, grow. That is the nature of rivers. That is the nature of love!”
― Ibi Zoboi, Pride

“Faith guides you in a principal of being a good person and doing good things. Religion gives you an excuse to do nasty things in the name of God for profit. Therefore, we are in a post-religious society that has monetized religion and worship it as its own entity.”
― Olivia Gaines, Buckeye and the Babe