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“am so sick of it. All of it. I’m sick of my dad and his it’s-your-fault-for-wearing-a-skirt-that’s-too-short BS. I’m sick of people acting like I’m crazy. Anytime a woman gets mad or sad or emotional, boom, let’s put a big stamp on that feeling that says it isn’t valid. That it’s maybe even pathological. You know as many as 70 percent of women got diagnosed as hysterical by certain doctors back in the day? But what if none of them were Crazy Bitches? What if they were just tired? Tired of pretending everything was okay when it wasn’t, and living in a world that was designed to be against them, and being told to smile through the knife wounds. Maybe pretending to be okay in the middle of a tornado is the truly crazy thing.”
― Rachael Allen, Harley Quinn: Reckoning

“Why can I fight everyone’s monsters except mine?”
― Rachael Allen, Harley Quinn: Reckoning

“Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don't do that.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Safe does not mean happy, does not mean well, does not mean kind.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“Tired can be a kind of sick, if it lasts long enough.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“She knows too well what’s it like when people take one weakness and define you by it.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“If you wanted, I would burn down the world for you.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

“If you let lesser people determine your self-worth, you'll never reach higher than their limited imagination.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

“You are the light to my dark, Sunshine,” he said in a raw voice. His lips brushed against mine as he spoke. “Without you, I’m lost.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

“She felt like heaven to my hell, the closest I’d ever get to salvation, and yet I still wanted to drag her into the depths of Hades with me.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

“She was fire, she was darkness, she was dust and blood and shadow.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“Life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“But someone once told me we always end up where we're meant to be, and this is where I'm meant to be. With you.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Games

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Sometimes the braver thing is to accept help when you've been made to believe you shouldn't need it.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“To the quiet girls with stories in their heads.
To their dreams—and their nightmares.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“I always wondered how something could shine so bright, even while being swallowed in darkness.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful

“Courage is the root of change—and change is what we’re chemically designed to do.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Humans need reassurance, they need to know others survived in hard times. And unlike other species which do a better job of learning from their mistakes, humans require constant threats and reminders to be nice.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“We should always make time for the things we like. If we don't, we might forget how to be happy.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Sometimes the true power is in the shadows. Someone who stays out of the light, and watches others shrivel and burn in its glare.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“The past is embedded in who we are, whether we choose to change or keep our course. Without our history, we are unmarked sheets of paper.”
― Sue Lynn Tan, Tales of the Celestial Kingdom