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    Seanan McGuire
    “There are moments that change everything, mired in the mass of more ordinary time like insects caught in amber. Without them, life would be a tame, predictable thing. But with them, ah. With them, life does as it will, like lightning, like the wind that blows across the castle battlements, and none may stop it, and none may tell it “no”.”
    ― Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones
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    N.K. Jemisin
    “When the world is hard, love must be harder still.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky
    tags: life, love
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    Audre Lorde
    “Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”
    ― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
    tags: self-acceptance, strength
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    Seanan McGuire
    “There are worlds built on rainbows and worlds built on rain. There are worlds of pure mathematics, where every number chimes like crystal as it rolls into reality. There are worlds of light and worlds of darkness, worlds of rhyme and worlds of reason, and worlds where the only thing that matters is the goodness in a hero's heart.”
    ― Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones
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    “It's hard. Wanting the tea, but also not wanting the tea, but feeling like you should want the tea, but knowing you should protest the tea, so you put the protest on the teapot and throw all the tea in the harbor, and the teapot I guess. . . stays empty?”
    ― Katherine Locke, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!
    tags: boston-tea-party, protest, tea, teapot
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    N.K. Jemisin
    “Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
    tags: home
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    Aiden Thomas
    “Queer folks are like wolves," Julian told him. "We travel in packs."

    (p. 125)”
    ― Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys
    tags: cemetery-boys, queer-ya
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    N.K. Jemisin
    “For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
    tags: inspirational, social-justice
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    N.K. Jemisin
    “But for a society buit on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky
    tags: fantasy, oppression
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    N.K. Jemisin
    “To those who’ve survived: Breathe. That’s it. Once more. Good. You’re good. Even if you’re not, you’re alive. That is a victory.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky
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    Charlie Jane Anders
    “Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all—clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible. Maybe if enough people had worked to demolish clichés, the world wouldn’t have ended.”
    ― Charlie Jane Anders, As Good as New
    tags: apocalypse, cliches, imagination
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: childhood, happiness
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Words save our lives, sometimes.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: inspirational
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: books
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    N.K. Jemisin
    “It is so easy to have principles. Far, far harder to live by them.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
    tags: activism, privilege, resistance
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    Epicurus
    “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
    Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
    Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
    Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: atheism, religion
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    N.K. Jemisin
    “Everyone—even the poor, even the lazy, even the undesirable—can matter. Do you see how just the idea of this provokes utter rage in some? That is the infection defending itself … because if enough of us believe a thing is possible, then it becomes so.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
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    Sarah Pinsker
    “Fear is a virus. Music is a virus and a vaccine and a cure.”
    ― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day
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    Aliette de Bodard
    “Anyway, the fire doesn't matter. There will be other fires, my love, and we will survive them all.”
    ― Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
    tags: fire, perseverance
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    Seanan McGuire
    “Let us speak, for a moment, on the matter of sisters. They can be enemies to fight or companions to lean upon: they can, at times, be strangers. They are not required to be friends, or to have involvement in one another's lives, or to be anything more than strangers united by the circumstances of their birth. Still, there is a magic in the word "sister," a magic which speaks of shared roots and hence shared branches, of a certain ease that is always to be pursued, if not always to be found.”
    ― Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream
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    Seanan McGuire
    “Sometimes 'fair' is bigger than just you. Sometimes ‘fair’ has to think about what’s best for everyone.”
    ― Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream
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    Aliette de Bodard
    “Please," Thanh says. Because Giang should be angry. Because Giang should be blaming her. Because--because anger is easier, and compassion hurts so much.”
    ― Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
    tags: anger, blame, pain
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    Aliette de Bodard
    “Ssshhh. It's all right." And does it matter that it's not, if it gets them through the night?”
    ― Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
    tags: hope, night, reassurance
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    Katherine May
    “We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.”
    ― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
    tags: wintering
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    Bettany Hughes
    “…often women aren’t allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she was incredibly good at maths; she wasn’t that much of a looker. But when we think of her, we think: big breasted seductress bathing in milk. Often, even when women have made their mark and they are remembered by history, we are offered a fantasy version of their lives.”
    ― Bettany Hughes
    tags: cleopatra, feminism, feminist, history, women
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    N.K. Jemisin
    “We aren't human."

    "Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-somethingth council of big important farts decreed, or how the geomests classify things, or any of that. That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
    tags: alienation, caste, caste-system, classification, humanity, labeling, labels, oppression, outcast, outcasts, taxonomy
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    Seanan McGuire
    “There is kindness in the world, if we know how to look for it. If we never start denying it the door.”
    ― Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky
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    Seanan McGuire
    “Sometimes that’s all you can do. Just keep getting through until you don’t have to do it anymore, however much time that takes, however difficult it is.”
    ― Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky
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    Seanan McGuire
    “We’re all puzzle boxes, skeleton and skin, soul and shadow.”
    ― Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky
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    Seanan McGuire
    “If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion.”
    ― Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream
    tags: compassion, friends, self-care
    137 likes



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