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“Be careful. Please. The border…The fucking border.” I feel a wildness spreading through me. “It’s nothing but a giant wound, a big gash between the two countries. Why does it have to be like that? I don’t understand. It’s just some random, stupid line. How can anyone tell people where they can and can’t go?”
― Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

“People don't change. They just get better at hiding who they really are.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“But love is complicated, it’s messy. It can inspire selflessness, selfishness, our greatest accomplishments and our hardest mistakes. It brings us together and it can just as easily drive us apart.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“Every little thing about you can be a weapon, if you're clever enough.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“And Sadie, if you’re out there, please let me know. Because I can’t take another dead girl.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“He's the Stu to my Billy Loomis”
― Goldy Moldavsky, The Mary Shelley Club

“Mary Shelley’s message was clear: Real monsters aren’t the ones created by man. The real monster is man himself.”
― Goldy Moldavsky, The Mary Shelley Club

“Fear is where the truth lies.”
― Goldy Moldavsky, The Mary Shelley Club

“It felt like a way to fight back, but quietly. The only way I know how to.”
― Jennifer Mathieu, Moxie

“It’s ridiculous. Why should girls be responsible for what boys think and do? Like the boys aren’t able to control themselves?”
― Jennifer Mathieu, Moxie

“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.”
― Angela Davis

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
― Angela Y. Davis

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

“You are your best thing”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
― Toni Morrison

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“When you think of me, I hope it ruins rock 'n' roll”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“That’s the glory of being a man. An ugly face isn’t the end of you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation