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“When you don't have any power, you get off your ass and take some.”
― M.K. Lobb, Seven Faceless Saints

“Everything that reminded me of home - everything that reminded me of happiness - centered around you.”
― M.K. Lobb, Seven Faceless Saints

“She looked like she knew a thousand different ways to kill a man, and he found it didn't bother him.”
― M.K. Lobb, Seven Faceless Saints

“Because that was the central function of faith, wasn't it? To act as a stand-in for one's own agency. To be pointed to when other explanations faltered”
― M.K. Lobb, Seven Faceless Saints

“But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's ok to feel like this. And then the lunch bell rings, the book closes, and I'm plunged back into reality.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“You didn't write the Baby Hope story. I'm not saying you don't bear the burden of it, you obviously do, but you didn't write it. So it's not yours. Not really.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Hope and Other Punchlines

“I wonder if everyone, if everything dies twice. If that's how grief is: cyclical, never finished. The Towers are still falling. And falling again.”
― Julie Buxbaum

“And then one day, they stopped.
Long, long before I had stopped loving him.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“We as people are so stupidly dull. There is never anything to stop our thoughts from destroying the beauty of something we fear may overwhelm us.”
― Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

“We must all find pointless causes to live for, or why bother with breath?”
― Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

“It is for love. You are doing this for love.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

“I suppose that’s what everybody wants, isn’t it. To be like everybody else. But nobody is like everybody else. That’s the one thing we have in common.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“You come and see me among flowers and pictures, and think me mysterious, romantic, and all the rest of it. Being yourself very inexperienced and very emotional, you go home and invent a story about me, and now you can't separate me from the person you've imagined me to be. You call that, I suppose, being in love; as a matter of fact it's being in delusion.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

“My dear.” Mamaw cupped Daffy’s face in her old hands. “A witch is not a pointy hat or a broom or warts. A witch is merely a woman who is punished for being wiser than a man. That’s why they burned her. They tried to burn away her power because a woman who says more than she’s supposed to say, and does more than she’s supposed to do, is a woman they’ll try to silence and destroy. But there are some things that not even fire can destroy. One of those things is the strength of a woman. Don’t you want to be a woman like that? A woman with power?”
― Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side

“Sometimes joy hides,” I said. “You just have to find it. That’s all it’s doing now. It’s hiding, and we’ll find it.”
― Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side

“There is no comfort like complicity.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. all she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when they were twenty. `Why doesn't he text?´was none of her business. The fact was, he didn't text, and she wanted someone who did.”
― Jenny Mustard, Okay Days

“Is it true that human beings are fundamentally cruel? Is the experience of cruelty the only thing we share as a species? Is the dignity that we cling to nothing but self-delusion, masking from ourselves the single truth: that each one of us is capable of being reduced to an insect, a ravening beast, a lump of meat? To be degraded, slaughtered - is this the essential of humankind, one which history has confirmed as inevitable?”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

“Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask.
"Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated," he says. "But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Man vergaß die Toten. Man vergaß ihre Stimmen, und man vergaß ihre Gesichter. Auch wenn man das Gefühl für sie nie ganz verlor, war es schrecklich, irgendwann aufzuwachen und nicht mehr ganz sicher zu sein, wie die verstorbene Person einmal ausgesehen hatte. Sie wusste das nur zu gut.”
― Miriam Georg, Im Nordwind

“Und als Quint sie lachen sah, ein echtes, warmes Lachen, das ihr Gesicht veränderte, so nahe an ihm, dass ihr Atem seinen Hals streifte, passierte etwas. Er wusste nicht genau, was es war. Ein Zucken in ihm. Ein Verschieben seiner Wahrnehmung. Ein gläsernen Moment, der sofort wieder zerbrach. In diesem Augenblick hätte er alles dafür getan, sie noch einmal so lachen zu sehen.”
― Miriam Georg, Träume

“Wir leben in einer Welt, in der die Frau immer noch gänzlich vom Mann bestimmt wird. Wenn der Mann sagt, sie ist krank, dann ist sie krank. Auch wenn sie selbst das anders sieht.”
― Miriam Georg, Träume

“Man verstand erst, was Hunger bedeutete, wenn er bereits da war, wenn er einen von innen auffraß. Genauso wie man erst verstand, was Einsamkeit bedeutete, wenn niemand, aber auch wirklich niemand mehr da war.”
― Miriam Georg

“Ich frage Sie, Claire. Wenn mehr als die Hälfte alle Frauen Symptome zeigt, ist es dann eine Krankheit? Oder vielleicht einfach etwas, das wir als normal akzeptieren müssen?”
― Miriam Georg, Träume