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“Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“That is the casualty of life in a small town. People scoop into your business, then hand out cones to anyone who asks for a lick.”
― Barbra Annino, Opal Fire

“They asked me what I wanted to get out of this experience and I said me.”
― Barbra Annino, Opal Fire

“You'll make mistakes because it's impossible to know what is or isn't a mistake until it's made.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Chemist

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“And are we not all “mere guests” upon this whirling earth?”
― Lee Smith, Guests on Earth

“No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.”
― Rabbi Sofer

“Be as swift as the wind. As silent as the forest. As fierce as the fire. As unshakable as the mountain. And you can do anything...”
― Renee Ahdieh, Flame in the Mist

“Touch has a memory.”
― John Keats

“Option A is not available. so let's just kick the shit out of Option B."

Life is never perfect. We all live some form of Option B.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet