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Death of the Author

by Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads Author)

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“Never forget where you come from, but don’t allow it to define you.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

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“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.’ That’s from Emerson,”
― Carl Hiaasen, Squeeze Me

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“Serenity is what we get when we quit hoping for a better past.”
― Kelsey Ronan, Chevy in the Hole

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“It was the first time many of the women had spent time in a bonafide workplace apart from a classroom, and they discovered what workplaces are and have been since the dawn of time: places where one is annoyed and thwarted and underpaid and interrupted and under appreciated.”
― Liza Mundy, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II

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“You know what I believe?” Monae said, and he wasn’t sure he did. “I think you decide on someone and somewhere and that devotion is the sense it all makes. You choose someone and you try your best for them. I’ll take it if there’s more, but that’s enough for me. That’s the way I love you. That’s the way I love this place.”
― Kelsey Ronan, Chevy in the Hole

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