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

“This moment will just be another story someday.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“...stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“But no matter what choices we make - solo or together - our finish line remains the same … No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Sometimes the truth is a secret you're keeping from yourself because living a lie is easier.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. That’s what they say, right?”
― Christina Dalcher, Vox

“Le génocide est une marée noire, ceux qui ne s’y sont pas noyés sont mazoutés à vie. Parfois,”
― Gaël Faye, Petit pays

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

“la contemplation de la beauté était un pansement sur la laideur. Il en avait toujours été ainsi. Quand il se sentait mal, il allait se promener dans un musée. Le merveilleux demeurait la meilleure arme contre la fragilité.”
― David Foenkinos, Vers la beauté

“J'allais aux cours de littérature et de sociologie, au restau U, je buvais des cafés midi et soir à la Faluche, le bar réservé aux étudiants. Je n'étais plus dans le même monde. Il y avait les autres filles, avec leurs ventres vides, et moi.”
― Annie Ernaux, L'événement

“J’ai tué ma mère en moi à ce moment-là.”
― Annie Ernaux, L'événement

“Des milliers de filles ont monté un escalier, frappé à une porte derrière laquelle il y avait une femme dont elles ne savaient rien, à qui elles allaient abandonner leur sexe et leur ventre. Et cette femme, la seule personne alors capable de faire passer le malheur, ouvrait la porte, en tablier et en pantoufles à pois, un torchon à la main : "C'est pour quoi, mademoiselle?”
― Annie Ernaux, L'événement

“I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“All you children playing with fire, looking surprised when the house burns down”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“There were always excuses for why girls died”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“They'd made the mistake of teaching him he could survive”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

“Ce qui a changé aujourd’hui, et dont se plaignent, en fustigeant le puritanisme ambiant, des types comme lui et ses défenseurs, c’est qu’après la libération des mœurs, la parole des victimes, elle aussi, soit en train de se libérer.”
― Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement

“Pourquoi une adolescente de quatorze ans ne pourrait-elle aimer un monsieur de trente-six ans son aîné? Cent fois, j'avais retourné cette question dans mon esprit. Sans voir qu'elle était mal posée, dès le départ. Ce n'est pas mon attirance à moi qu'il fallait interroger, mais la sienne”
― Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement

“Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“No woman should be made to fear that she was not enough.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe