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“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“You have to plan and cultivate good health. You have to commit to good health. You have to live good health because it comes from the inside out. It comes from what you bring to your life: positive, empowering thoughts, prayers and affirmations, uplifting company, and high-quality, life-giving foods. To have excellent health you must invest time and energy into the transformation of your Sacred Body Temple. And once you’ve acquired excellent health, you must maintain it vigilantly. That’s the true divine challenge—one that you can and must meet.”
― Queen Afua, Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind, and Spirit

“The condition of women’s wombs also directly reflects the condition of women’s minds, spirits, and actions. The womb is a storehouse of all our emotions.”
― Queen Afua, Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind, and Spirit

“Love is like a faucet: it turns on and off.”
― Billie Holiday

“You've got to learn to leave the table
When love's no longer being served".”
― nina simone

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley

“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.”
― Stephanie Meyer, Twilight

“Love is hate
War is Peace
No is Yes
And we're all free.”
― Tracy Chapman

“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4

“There is always light.
Only if we are brave enough to see it.
There is always light.
Only if we are brave enough to be it.”
― Amanda Gorman

“We've learned that quiet isn't always peace.”
― Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

“When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire.”
― Angelina Jolie

“If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental.”
― Angelina Jolie

“If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.”
― Angelina Jolie

“They are talking about how we can't trust the faded women, women who can't be touched but can stand on the earth, which means they must be lying about something, they must be deceiving us somehow.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“The moral of that story, I think, is that being poor will kill you.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“I want to say, Don't bother asking me anything. I want to say, There is nothing underneath.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“In it, I was sitting across from my wife, who was nude but wrapped in a gauzy fabric. She had a clipboard in her hand, and was moving a pencil down it as if ticking off entries on a list.
"Where are you?" she asked.
"Devil's Throat," I said.
"What are you doing?"
"Carrying a basket through the forest."
"What's in the basket?"
I looked down, and there they were: four beautiful spheres.
"Two eggs," I counted. "Two figs."
"Are you sure?"
I did not look down again, afraid that the answer would change. "Yes."
"And what is through the forest?"
"I do not know."
"And what is through the forest?"
"I am not certain."
"And what is through the forest?"
"I cannot tell."
"And what is through the forest?"
"I don't remember."
"And what is through the forest?"
I woke up before I could answer.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“by loving me when I did not love her, by being abandoned by me, she has become immortal. She will outlive me by a hundred million years; more,even. She will outlive my daughter, and my daughter’s daughter,
and the earth will teem with her and her kind, their inscrutable
forms and unknowable destinies.”
― Machado Carman Maria

“When you think about it, stories have
this way of running together like raindrops in a pond. Each is borne
from the clouds separate, but once they have come together, there is
no way to tell them apart.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties

“Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“He wishes they were still floating safely in the unborn space, which he imagines to be grayish-blue, like the Atlantic, studded with star-like points of light, and thick as corn syrup.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“Then the not-memory washed away like a wet painting in a storm, and I was in the shower, shaking, and she was outside, losing me, and there was no way for me to tell her not to.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“None of us will make it to the end.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“BAD BLOOD": Stabler and Benson will never forget the case where solving the crime was so much worse than the crime itself.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories