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“Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.”
― Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1

“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.”
― Hiromu Arakawa

“Looking back now, I can only remember a time when the world seemed to have a million eyes, silently opening wherever I went. Most of the time they were camouflaged, like the closed eyes of green lizards in green trees. But then they snapped open -- on the bus, in the pharmacy -- and I felt the intensity of all that looking, the desire and desperation.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“There is no evidence against genetic determinism more persuasive than the children of the rich.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“It's this: that a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“That though the heart is breaking, happiness can exist in a moment, also.”
― Alice Walker, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

“Show her that she does not need to be liked by everyone. Tell her that if someone does not like her, there will be someone else who will. Teach her that she not merely an object to be liked or disliked, she is also a subject who can like and dislike.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ”
― Carrie Fisher

“Let these historic moments move you, inspire you and invigorate you for as long as the feeling lasts because, believe me, that initial adrenaline and humanitarian solidarity will wear off. Ride it as long as you can. Let it make you be a better person, and let it wake you up from the complacency in your life.”
― Tokyo Twilighter

“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”
― Anthony Bourdain

“Power can be invisible, it can be fantastic, it can be dull and routine. It can be obvious, it can reach you by the baton of the police, it can speak the language of your thoughts and desires. It can feel like remote control, it can exhilarate like liberation, it can travel through time, and it can drown you in the present.”
― Avery Gordon

“I think that's what love is -- it's not about forgiving or forgetting right away. It's about deciding to give someone a chance to earn your forgiveness, eventually.”
― Sarah Gailey, Taste of Marrow

“How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.”
― Craig Thompson, Blankets

“Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream.”
― Craig Thompson, Blankets

“Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.”
― Craig Thompson, Blankets

“Racism's a cancer that doesn't get cured. The best you get is remission.”
― Pornsak Pichetshote, Infidel

“Shame is a horrible long-term motivator. It is more likely to contribute to dysfunction and continued cycles of unsustainable practices.”
― K.C. Davis

“You don't exist to serve your space; your space exists to serve you.”
― K.C. Davis

“Many self-help gurus overattribute their success to their own hard work without any regard to the physical, mental, or economic privileges they hold.”
― K.C. Davis

“No,' I begged, but then I shut up because they didn't like no. No was talking back; no was a word I had no right to.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know

“The literature says this is normal for traumatized people. Experts say it’s all part of the three P’s: We think our sadness is personal, pervasive, and permanent. Personal, in that we have caused all the problems we face. Pervasive, in that our entire life is defined by our failings. And permanent, in that the sadness will last forever.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“Forgiveness is this act of love where you say to someone, ‘You’re an imperfect being and I still love you.’ You want to have this energy of ‘We’re not giving up on each other; we’re in this for the long haul. You hurt me. And, yes, I hurt you. And I’m sorry, but you’re still mine.’ ”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“But the sadness of a lost childhood feels like yearning, impossible desire. It feels like a hollow, insatiable hunger.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“My mother learned how to grow a life around her damage. But beneath the surface, her ghosts seethed in the chasms ripped through her core.”
― Tessa Hulls, Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

“But what do you do when trauma distorts love into something cloying and fraught? Unresolved ghosts just grow stronger across generations, destroying children with the very things their parents swore to save them from.”
― Tessa Hulls, Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir