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Martyr!

by Kaveh Akbar

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“The half-life of love is forever.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

tags: love

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“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

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“blessed be
she
who is
both
furious
and
magnificent”
― Taylor Rhodes, calloused: a field journal

tags: feminism, human-condition, nonfiction, strong-women, womanhood, women-s-strength

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“That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.”
― Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

tags: curses, happiness, heartbreak, life

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“She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

tags: pain

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