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“You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”
― Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow to the Sea

“Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.”
― Valery Satterwhite

“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
― Maya Angelou

“Too long have I confined myself in Miltonic isolation and meditation. It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our society, not in the boring, passive manner of the Myrna Minkoff school of social action, but with great style and zest.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces