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“Every story, whether truth or fiction, is an invitation to imagination, but even more so, it’s an invitation to empathy. The storyteller says, “I am here. Does it matter?” The words that I found in these books were a person calling out from a page, “I am worthy of being heard and you are worthy of hearing my story.”
― R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“Her shame and fierceness were blended.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Your now is not your forever.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down