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“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
― Bell Hooks

“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”
― bell hooks

“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We know she’s a girl. We can never emphasize this enough, because this is the fate of colored girls globally right now: the denial of their girlhood, the denial of their childhood, and the constant state of risk and danger they are living in.”
― bell hooks, Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism

“Jaehee, who had taught me that every season is its own beautiful moment -- that Jaehee didn't live here anymore.”
― Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I was marking time, I thought. Today, I’m twenty-four and in love and it doesn’t always feel good. Last year, I was lonely. Next year, I’ll be lonely again. These songs will sound right, even if they hit me differently. I felt almost entirely normal and almost exactly like myself.”
― Kaitlyn Tiffany, Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It

“If I'm really honest, I like One Direction because their music reminds me of myself. I'm 19, and I'm not 19. I get to hold the two images side by side and think about the ways in which I'm changing, and the ways in which I'll always be the same.”
― Kaitlyn Tiffany, Everything I Need I Get from You