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“The golden rule is a vastly valuable social technology carefully passed down to us by people who fought their way out of darkness using it.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Future

“It is easy to forget, but stories need not always have a purpose. We are quick to say that folktales have a moral or a lesson or a creed. But most of the stories that have survived the ages are told for one purpose only, and that purpose is to say this: "Being human is difficult. Here is some evidence.”
― Lindsey Drager, The Archive of Alternate Endings

“When I gained the faculty to speak my story, I realized I had given men too much.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

“It was another reminder—one she vowed never to forget—that people’s lives were defined not by the scars they acquired but by what lay on the other side of those scars, by what’s done with the life they have left.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“What if letting my dream die makes me all bitter and angry and cranky—and if I never get to do and be the thing I love, how will anyone ever see me, or know me, or love me?”
― Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody

“Living happened till it didn’t. There was no choice in it. To say no to a new day would be unthinkable. So each morning you said yes, then stepped into the consequence.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
― Denis Diderot

“A city is the weirdest, loneliest thing.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“The flip side of being a person who never fails at anything is that you never do anything you could fail at. You never do anything risky.”
― Nathan Hill, The Nix

“America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad