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“We can’t help the way we’re born. We can’t help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer

“Sister in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer

“Diana couldn’t help but admire the people with whom she traveled. Their lives were violent, precarious, fragile, but they fought for them anyway, and held to the hope that their brief stay on this earth might count for something. That faith was worth preserving.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer

“When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy had whistled at her out of a car window when she was walking to school? The moment she started wondering how she looked when she ran, what jiggled or bounced, instead of the pace she was setting? The first time she’d kept from raising her hand because she didn’t want to seem too smart or too eager? No one had sung. No one had told her how much she would lose until the time for grieving was long over.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer

“As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. I’ll find a way, Diana, she swore. For you, for Theo, for Nim. While I live, your cause is mine.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer

“If you cannot bear our pain, you are not fit to carry our strength.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer

“I am immortal, and you are a footnote. I will erase you from my history, and you will vanish, unremembered by this world.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer

“No le tengas miedo a nada. Entrega tu cuento, pero, sobre todo, entrégate a la alegría.”
― Gabby Rivera, Juliet respira profundo

“Corría el 1954 y el gobierno estadounidense trataba a Puerto Rico como su isla privada: extraían azúcar, usaban sus costas con fines militares y aprobaban leyes contra el despliegue de banderas puertorriqueñas o la lucha por independizarse de Estados Unidos.”
― Gabby Rivera, Juliet respira profundo

“Aparentemente, EE.UU. no le había preguntado al pueblo de Puerto Rico si querían ser un protectorado o no. Nunca le preguntaban nada al pueblo. Solo se habían apoderado del territorio después de la Guerra Hispanoamericana.”
― Gabby Rivera, Juliet respira profundo

“No voy a dejar que me oiga llorar o que sienta el peso de mi rabia y mi tristeza. Si en algún momento piensa en mí este verano, prefiero que sea con un signo de interrogación presionándole las costillas.”
― Gabby Rivera, Juliet respira profundo

“Amar a otra mujer es atravesar desnuda los cielos, tragarse el sol de un bocado y vivir en llamas. Amar a otra mujer es mirarte al espejo y decidir que mereces la galaxia y su furia. Amar a otra mujer es amarte a ti misma más de lo que la amas a ella”. La flor enardecida: Empodera tu mente y empoderarás tu chocha, Harlowe Brisbane”
― Gabby Rivera, Juliet respira profundo

“—Pedro Tercero García no ha hecho nada que no hayas hecho tú —dijo Clara, cuando pudo interrumpirlo—. Tú también te has acostado con mujeres solteras que no son de tu clase. La diferencia es que él lo ha hecho por amor. Y Blanca también. Trueba la miró, inmovilizado por la sorpresa. Por”
― Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus

“Hero’s wasn’t. He wasn’t book enough, not really. The damsel suite felt like a pantomime in a foreign land that he was supposed to call home. A language that was supposed to be in his blood but felt borrowed on his tongue. Too much a book to be a person. Too much a person to be a book.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The Archive of the Forgotten

“reader doesn’t mark his life by days but by memories. A book doesn’t mark its life by pages but by readers. We are made up of those whom we touch.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The Archive of the Forgotten

“Sometimes, simply being here was all the truth needed.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The Archive of the Forgotten

“Humans could create because they could birth little pieces of their souls to do it. Books existed in the afterlife, because the afterlife was a place of immutable things, including souls.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The Archive of the Forgotten

“Emotion without empathy turned out to be a deadly combination—particularly when paired with high intelligence.”
― Stina Leicht, Persephone Station

“But then”—he paused, still focused on staying rational—“why is there such an emphasis on you being a Father? I mean, it seems to be the way you most reveal yourself.” “Well,” responded Papa, turning away from him and bustling around the kitchen, “there are many reasons for that, and some of them go very deep. Let me say for now that we knew once the creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don’t misunderstand me, both are needed—but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence.”
― William Paul Young, The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity

“abusers.” “That is pie in a sky,” the woman says. Bronca frowns a little at the odd phrasing. “Cruelty is human nature.” Bronca restrains the urge to laugh. She’s never liked that little bit of bullshit “wisdom.” “Nah. Nothing human beings do is set in stone—and even stone changes, anyway. We can change, too, anything about ourselves that we want to. We just have to want to.” She shrugs. “People who say change is impossible are usually pretty happy with things just as they are.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“I’m Chicano as fuck. My parents were illegal—I get it.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“. Aislyn lets out a shaky breath. (She does not parse the Woman’s sigh as disappointment. She does not parse her own sigh as relief. The alternative is to challenge her own belief that the Woman in White isn’t so bad. This would force her to question her own judgment and biases and find them wanting. And given how hard she has fought lately to feel some kind of belief in herself, she is not ready to doubt again. So it’s fine. Everything is fine.)”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“You have made official our status as whites. After all the work I’ve done to advocate for the equal rights of black and colored people. After how hard I’ve argued in courts and in newspapers and journals and on stages that all citizens should be treated the same—whether they are black, white, or colored. That we should not be defined by how many drops of African blood run in our veins, but by our character and our deeds. That we should not be ashamed of our heritage and we all, blacks and coloreds alike, should unify in our fight against prejudice. Your act goes against everything I stand for and everything I’ve worked for—”
― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

“Like Russell, I had to add the Portuguese da Costa to my last name—after dropping Marion—because the ties that bind us to Africa are plainer in the shade of our olive complexions.”
― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

“12 CLAIRE History is told by the victors, isn’t that how it goes? Fight for something and lose, you’re insurrectionists, conspirators, terrorists. Fight for something and win, you’re rebels, freedom fighters, founding fathers. History is a story told in past tense, the best kind of propaganda. What everyone forgets is that, at one point in the story, every villain thinks they are the hero. History happens in the edit.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words

“Even the battles you lost are worthy,” Bjorn said. “Winning doesn’t make a warrior; trying to live does that.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words

“Standing in the light now just meant you cast long, deep shadows.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words

“What happens to you is not the story. The plot is not the story, the conflict is not the story, the world is not the story. The story is you. You, the character; you, the reader; and the liminal watercolor of magic that happens between those two. Love a story, hate a story, tire of a story, all the possible magic a story has is contained between those two immovable, unknowable forces. Everything else—well, it matters. But this is another story.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words

“I’ve seen enough revolutions in my time to say it with some authority: rebellions are built on love and hope. You can’t reject the status quo unless you are hopeful enough to imagine something better. Of course, that doesn’t make a lot of difference once the killing starts.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words

“It’s not such a ridiculous thing, to be willing to die for an idea. Sometimes, that’s the only thing worth a good death.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words