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  • #1
    Tashie Bhuiyan
    “If I'm lightning, then what are you?”
    Already I can imagine Ace teasing me but instead he smiles and says, “I'm thunder. I'll follow you wherever you go.”
    Tashie Bhuiyan, Counting Down with You

  • #2
    Megha Majumdar
    “Mother, do you grieve?
    Know that I will return to you. I will be a flutter in the leaves above where you sit, cooking ruti on the stove. I will be the stray cloud which shields you from the days of sun. I will be the thunder that wakes you before rain floods the room.
    When you walk to the market, I will return to you as footprint on the soil. At night, when you close your eyes, I will appear as impress on the bed.”
    Megha Majumdar, A Burning

  • #3
    Liane Moriarty
    “They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.”
    Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

  • #4
    Liane Moriarty
    “Falling in love was easy.anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky”
    Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret
    tags: tess

  • #5
    Megha Majumdar
    “Many years ago I would have been asking why is this happening? But now I am knowing that there is no use asking these questions. In life, many things are happening for no reason at all.”
    Megha Majumdar, A Burning

  • #6
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: moon

  • #7
    Vera Nazarian
    “Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand?

    Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light.

    There you go . . . That was easy!”
    Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

  • #8
    Melody  Lee
    “Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.”
    Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy

  • #9
    Sylvia Plath
    “The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary.
    Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.”
    Sylvia Plath, Ariel

  • #10
    Be the moon in somebody's night. Be the yusr (ease), in somebody's usr (hardship).
    “Be the moon in somebody's night. Be the yusr (ease), in somebody's usr (hardship).”
    Yasmin Mogahed
    tags: ease, moon

  • #11
    Zadie Smith
    “The shit is *not* the shit (this was Mo's mantra,) the *pigeon* is the shit.”
    Zadie Smith, White Teeth

  • #12
    Michelle Zauner
    “There was no one in the world that was ever as critical or could make me feel as hideous as my mother, but there was no one, not even Peter, who ever made me feel as beautiful.”
    Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

  • #13
    Michelle Zauner
    “To be a loving mother was to be known for a service, but to be a lovely mother was to possess a charm all your own.”
    Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

  • #14
    Michelle Zauner
    “It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to.”
    Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

  • #15
    Madeline Miller
    “But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #16
    Madeline Miller
    “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

  • #17
    Madeline Miller
    “-’Tell me’, he said, ‘who gives better offerings, a miserable man or a happy one’?

    -’A happy one, of course.’

    -’Wrong. A happy man is too occupied with his life. He thinks he is beholden to no one. But make him shiver, kill his wife, cripple his child, then you will hear from him. He will starve his family for a month to buy yo a pure-white yearling calf. If he can afford it, he will buy you a hundred’.

    -’But surely, I said, you have to reward him eventually. Otherwise he will stop offering’.

    -’Oh, you would be surprised how long he will go on. But yes, in the end, it’s best to give him something. Then he will be happy again. And you can start over.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #18
    Refaat Alareer
    “There's a Palestine that dwells inside all of us, a Palestine that needs to be rescued: a free Palestine where all people regardless of color, religion, or race coexist; a Palestine where the meaning of the word "occupation" is only restricted to what the dictionary says rather than those plenty of meanings and connotations of death, destruction, pain, suffering, deprivation, isolation and restrictions that Israel has injected the word with.”
    Refaat Alareer, Gaza Writes Back

  • #19
    David Benioff
    “I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”
    David Benioff, City of Thieves

  • #20
    Vikram Seth
    “God save us from people who mean well.”
    Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

  • #21
    Julia  Whelan
    “Can't fail if I don't try."
    ...
    "You're absolutely right. You'd regret trying and failing. But I'll do you one better. If you don't try, give it all you've got, you'll regret the hell out of never knowing if you would have succeeded.
    ...
    "Because regret haunts you for the rest of your life," Sewanee chimed in from the cheap seats. She hadn't intended to say anything, but as soon as she felt the answer it was out of her mouth. She caught Marilyn's eye. Her mother smiled sadly at her. "It's like a ghost that refuses to leave your house."

    Stu bugged his eye. "Why's it gotta leave? What, you think you can get through life avoiding regret? Avoiding failure?" He laughed. "Spoiler alert" life is regret, life is failure. But like that ghost, you learn to live with it. Because failure makes success matter.”
    Julia Whelan, Thank You for Listening

  • #22
    Julia  Whelan
    “Take the risk. Fail. And let regret come along for the ride. A passenger, not the driver.”
    Julia Whelan, Thank You for Listening

  • #23
    Julia  Whelan
    “Spoiler alert: life is regret, life is failure. But like that ghost, you learn to live with it. Because failure makes success matter.”
    Julia Whelan, Thank You for Listening

  • #24
    Eiko Kadono
    “How wonderful it is to have a place to return to.”
    Eiko Kadono, Kiki's Delivery Service

  • #25
    Chris  Whitaker
    “Reading isn’t a privilege, sir. I believe we all have the right to leave our problems and escape into another world, if only through the written word.”
    Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

  • #26
    Saad Z. Hossain
    “What good were humans without their habitual dissatisfaction? It was their defining trait.”
    Saad Hossain, The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday

  • #27
    Matthew Desmond
    “Every condition exists,” Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, “simply because someone profits by its existence. This economic exploitation is crystallized in the slum.” Exploitation. Now, there’s a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.”
    Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

  • #28
    Matthew Desmond
    “The home is the center of life. It is a refuge from the grind of work, the pressure of school, and the menace of the streets. We say that at home, we can “be ourselves.” Everywhere else, we are someone else. At home, we remove our masks.

    The home is the wellspring of personhood. It is where our identity takes root and blossoms, where as children, we imagine, play, and question, and as adolescents, we retreat and try. As we grow older, we hope to settle into a place to raise a family or pursue work. When we try to understand ourselves, we often begin by considering the kind of home in which we were raised.”
    Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
    tags: home

  • #29
    Matthew Desmond
    “liberals have a despondency problem: fluent in the language of grievance and bumbling in the language of repair.”
    Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

  • #30
    Matthew Desmond
    “As the sociologist Gerald Davis has put it: Our grandparents had careers. Our parents had jobs. We complete tasks.”
    Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America



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