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“That’s because language doesn’t work to manipulate people into believing things they don’t want to believe; instead, it gives them license to believe ideas they’re already open to. Language—both literal and figurative, well-intentioned and ill-intentioned, politically correct and politically incorrect—reshapes a person’s reality only if they are in an ideological place where that reshaping is welcome.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

“I wish I had looked longer, but I don’t blame myself. You never know where the trapdoors are in your life, do you?”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“Not every decision a woman makes is some grand indictment on other women’s lives.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“If God wanted me to give you up, he wouldn't have made me who I am.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You