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“Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

“Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?”
― Tamora Pierce, Wild Magic

“The lessons she'd been forced to learn were dry spare things, the facts without the sense of them, given in the simplest of language, as if words might disguise the truth or (worse) bring it to life.”
― Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown

“I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life