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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“How can a person claim to love you and yet want you to do things that suit only them? Udenna was like that.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck
tags: love

Elif Shafak
“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?
Elif Shafak”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

Michelle Obama
“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

Ali Smith
“But news right now is like a flock of speeded-up sheep running off the side of a cliff.”
― Ali Smith, Autumn
tags: news

Michelle Obama
“Even if we didn't know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they'd tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

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