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“A faerie heart is different from a human heart. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again. Faerie hearts are evolutionarily less sophisticated. They are small and hard, like tiny grains of sand. Our hearts are too small to love more than one person in a lifetime.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Let July be July. Let August be August. And let yourself just be even in the uncertainty. You don’t have to fix everything. You don’t have to solve everything. And you can still find peace and grow in the wild of changing things”
― Morgan Harper Nichols

“May you always be the one
who notices the little things
that make the light pour
through, and may they always
remind you: There is more to
life and there is more to you.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols

“When you start to feel like things should have been better this year, remember the mountains and valleys that got you here. They are not accidents, and those moments weren't in vain. You are not the same. You have grown and you are growing. You are breathing, you are living, you are wrapped in endless, boundless grace. And things will get better. There is more to you than yesterday.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols

“Living in the moment is learning how to live between the big moments. It is learning how to make the most of the in-betweens and having the audacity to make those moments just as exciting.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“Even though you have learned the skill of running on empty, now is the time to learn the art of breathing deep all over again,”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“But no matter who stays
or who walked away,
remember all the things
they taught you.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“Even when there are a thousand things to do, cherish these unrushed moments. Make room in your heart for them. There will be many mountains to climb, but always make time to find the pastures where you can rest.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“You may not have chosen your surroundings, but you can choose to find life in them.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“She no longer had the desire to bend herself into the frame of photographs where she was unwelcome”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“Never let anyone who cannot bear your pain make you feel you are unbearable. Not everyone is capable of walking with you, but that does not mean you are not worthy of belonging.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“You are free to forgive
and you are also free
to heal.
You are worthy of love
no matter how anyone else
has made you feel.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“Maybe if you had been different,
you would have been what they wanted.
But maybe if you have been what they wanted,
you would have been different
than who you were supposed to be.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

“I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets drawn for you; either way, there it is, your past, a collection of people you used to be.”
― Jamaica Kincaid

“No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother

“I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

“One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing that the feelings I had were possible to have; and then one day I was not living like that at all. I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets drawn for you; either way, there it is, your past, a collection of people you used to be and things you used to do. Your past is the person you no longer are, the situations you are no longer in.”
― Jamaica Kincaid

“And my difficulties were these: I found each plant, each new turn in the road, each new turn in the weather, from cold to hot and then back again, each new set of boulders so absorbing, so new, and the newness so absorbing, and I was so in need of an explanation for each thing, that I was often in tears, troubling myself with questions, such as what am I and what is the thing in front of me.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya

“Isn't it the most blissful thing in the world to be away from everything you have ever known--to be so far away that you don't even know yourself anymore and you're not sure you ever want to come back to all of the things you're a part of?”
― Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

“I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.”
― Jamaica Kincaid

“Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother