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“how to deal with unrepentantly loud neighbors you’re not in charge of, which seems to be a running theme of adulthood.”
― Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.

“Hello, 911? Why did this woman choose the middle stall in this three-stall public bathroom?”
― Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.

“Human beings are terrible at accepting uncertainty, so when we’re ignorant, we make assumptions based on how we imagine the world.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“the world pressed shame into women like pillows into their faces.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

“Thinking other people will burn forever because they love the wrong person or worship the wrong god has done a whole lot of bad.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“What I wanted was the part where people were asked to get together once a week to talk about how to be a good person and, like, hang out with their neighbors. It’s pretty amazing that apparently the only way to get people to do that is to invent an all-seeing, kindhearted sky dad who will be super disappointed/burn you for eternity if you don’t show up.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“I wanted people to understand that we are a trash fire of a species, but also most people are pretty cool.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“You will always struggle with not feeling productive until you accept that your own joy can be something you produce. It is not the only thing you will make, nor should it be, but it is something valuable and beautiful.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“They are both weaned on the religion of society, of slavery, which holds that for no particularly good reason one of them will live in the palace, while the other will be condemned to the dungeon.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

“It is a cruel thing to do to children, to raise them as though they are siblings, and then set them against each other so that one shall be a queen and the other shall be a footstool.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

“There is always a part of us that does not want to win, wants to stay down in the low and familiar.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

“But even if a lifetime of perfection wasn’t possible, perfect moments were.”
― Audrey Coulthurst, Of Ice and Shadows

“I cannot think of a place I’d rather be than sitting among a group of women plotting revolution.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba

“I can’t quite countenance why women are so eager to put up with men and all of their peccadilloes.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba

“Because the terrible thing about becoming an adult is being forced to realize that absolutely nobody cares about us, we have to deal with everything ourselves now, find out how the whole world works.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“We open our eyes in the morning and life is just waiting to tip a fresh avalanche of “Don’t Forget!”s and “Remember!”s over us.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“All right, genius brain: come up with something! …I’m hungry. You have failed me, brain.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“make a beeline for the fridge for some fat-free yogurt that’s yet to make me fat-free.”
― Lisa Fipps, Starfish

“We have to admit that maybe some of us actually have it better than others and, in having it better, we have to admit that maybe we could get by with a little less so that others can have a little more and that means giving up some of the things that we have.”
― Jason Mott, Hell of a Book

“Trust yourself. Believe in yourself. Live for yourself.”
― Erica Ridley, The Perks of Loving a Wallflower

“Grief has a taste, bitter and lingering, but so soft it sometimes disguises itself as sweetness.”
― Judy I. Lin, A Magic Steeped in Poison

“If you can feel someone else’s suffering, how can you look away?”
― Judy I. Lin, A Magic Steeped in Poison

“How can I give another part of myself to someone else, when I already have so little to give?”
― Judy I. Lin, A Magic Steeped in Poison

“That’s the thing about women. There’s no good way to be one. Wear your emotions on your sleeve and you’re hysterical. Keep them tucked away where your boyfriend doesn’t have to tend to them and you’re a heartless bitch.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“Words change over time, you see. The way they look, the way they sound; sometimes even their meaning changes. They have their own history.”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

“She’s certain he was the one who vandalized the sign outside one particular senator’s office to read BITCH MCCONNELL, but she’ll never prove it.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“HRH Prince Dickhead I BEG YOU TO NOT”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Oh, like, I thought we were already there with you being bi and everything,” she says. “Sorry, are we not? Did I skip ahead again? My bad. Hello, would you like to come out to me? I’m listening. Hi.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“The phrase “see attached bibliography” is the single sexiest thing you have ever written to me.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Is this how a dream died? On the lips of reasonable people?”
― Christina Soontornvat, A Wish in the Dark