Irina > Irina's Quotes

“Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“For all the robots who question their programming.”
― Annalee Newitz, Autonomous

“I am sorry you have to live in the time of terraforming, and not in the spring that follows.”
― Annalee Newitz

“That’s when I decided the point of travel was not to observe history, but to change it.”
― Annalee Newitz, The Future of Another Timeline

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
― James A. Baldwin

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World