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“When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“No matter how much you knelt and prayed, you still had to eat three meals a day and have a job and live in the world.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“You are weak and blind, and it is worse because you choose it.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“When sculptors shape their stone, they shape it after him.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Has anyone noticed this whole city is looking for us, mad at us, or wants to kill us?"
"So?" said Kaz.
"Well, usually it's just half the city.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“I don’t hold a grudge. I cradle it. I coddle it. I feed it fine cuts of meat and send it to the best schools. I nurture my grudges, Rollins.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“His prayers turned to screams, but both went unanswered.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“She's just a child.' 'We were all just children once.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“You were angry. Angry wears off. I needed you righteous.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Did they hurt you?” he asked.
She dragged her gaze up, sickened. “Who?”
“Everyone.”
Her eyes shut briefly, and she swayed. Her lips parted to mumble one word.
“Yes.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“Funny how that worked; the innocent fragility of being human. There were so many ways to break and so few of them heroic or noble.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

“I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

“If you ever get married again, don't tell your husband anything. Do you hear me?'

'Why?' said Mary Jane.

'Because I say so, that's why,' said Eloise. 'They wanna think you spent your whole life vomiting every time a boy came near you. I'm not kidding, either. Oh, you can tell them stuff. But never honestly. I mean never honestly. If you tell 'em you once knew a handsome boy, you gotta say in the same breath he was too handsome. And if you tell 'em you knew a witty boy, you gotta tell 'em he was kind of a smart aleck, though, or a wise guy. If you don't, they hit you over the head with the poor boy every time they get a chance.' Eloise paused to drink from her glass and to think. 'Oh,' she said, 'they'll listen very maturely and all that. They'll even look intelligent as hell. But don't let it fool you. Believe me. You'll go through hell if you ever give 'em any credit for intelligence. Take my word.”
― J.D. Salinger, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one most travelled by. It was littered with corpses, as such roads are. But as you will have noticed, my own corpse is not among them.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Still, I wanted to believe; indeed I longed to; and, in the end, how much of belief comes from longing?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“It’s better that way, and I am a great proponent of better. In the absence of best.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“underlings given sudden power frequently become the worst abusers of it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“She believes Marianne lacks ‘warmth’, by which she means the ability to beg for love from people who hate her.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

“Banal sexism aside,
I find myself tempted

to read Wuthering Heights as one thick stacked act of revenge
for all that life withheld from Emily.
But the poetry shows traces of a deeper explanation.

As if anger could be a kind of vocation for some women.
It is a chilly thought.”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

“He meant well, and he was a brave boy. But if you hadn't been around, he would have found something else to martyr himself over.”
― Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char

“One such was the notion of uzan-iya,
which was what they called the moment when an innocent heart first contemplated the act of murder. To the Atul, the crime itself was secondary to this initial corruption.”
― Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char

“Let me be feared and never again afraid.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Eventually this will happen to us. You will drop bits of our friendship here and there and eventually, I will stop picking us back up, picking you back up, putting us back together again. Eventually we might forget where we put it, this friendship of ours, and we will both let it fall through the cracks of a floorboard, forgotten in the memory of old mix tapes and letters boxed in an attic somewhere.”
― Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love

“She had caught herself lately watching herself with an abstracted curiosity, to see what she would do.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman

“I had realized by this time what my prevailing emotion was: it was rage.”
― margaret atwood

“At least," I said, "she's got what she thinks she wants, and I suppose that's something.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman