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“I’m still out there. In my head. I have to sort it out or I’ll never come home.”
― Greg Bear, War Dogs

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich

“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“How we feel about our kids isn’t as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.”
― Alfie Kohn, Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
― Malcolm X

“What you’re saying may get you a foundation grant but it won’t get you into the kingdom of truth.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Radical King

“noncooperation with evil is just as much a moral duty as is cooperation with good.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Radical King

“Today it is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Radical King

“It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered, that damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again, and that freedom from the control imposed by medication loses its meaning when the only alternatives are death and insanity.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind

“Friends did matter. Friends like these anyway, ones who were fiercely intelligent and similarly ambitious, who suffered through the same sort of ridicule and condemnation and survived, smiling.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“I have become fundamentally and deeply skeptical that anyone who does not have this illness can truly understand it. And, ultimately, it is probably unreasonable to expect the kind of acceptance of it that one so desperately desires. It is not an illness that lends itself to easy empathy. Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than as being willful, angry, irrational, or simply tiresome.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind

“Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and—no matter how much we despised ourselves for it—unable quite to let each other go.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Lying on the Couch

“She would have lain down with her cackling chickens if she could. Buried herself in their warm straw, let the world go its brutal way.”
― Maureen Lindley, A Girl Like You

“We are so often buried alive in the dirt,” Eriko says, “that death, when it comes, won’t seem much different.”
― Maureen Lindley, A Girl Like You

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
― William Arthur Ward

“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”
― Karl Marx