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“You cannot help people who do not want help,” rumbled Fenris. “You can’t force someone to do what you think is best for them.” He paused, then added, somewhat reluctantly, “Well, you can. But they don’t appreciate it and most of the time it turns out that you were wrong.” “But—” “We can only save people who want to be saved,” said the dust-wife. “If it’s still bothering you, we’ll come back afterward, assuming any of us are alive to do so.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like irony, satire, or humor are more effective in getting at difficult truths or concepts like white privilege, orientalism, and the exoticization of culture.”
― Simon S. Tam

“Ziemia jest jak dziewczyna. Póki wolna — cieszy oko i uśmiechnie się, i chętnie usłuży. Ożeń się z tą dziewczyną, niech no stanie się kobietą, która zaszła w ciążę, pracować na cię będzie, człowieku, ale już tam o uśmiechach nie ma mowy! Tylko harówka, byle z czasem nadążyć.”
― Melchior Wańkowicz, Tworzywo

“Mom didn’t get better. But I will.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“She wanted this. And I wanted her to have it. I wanted her to be happy. But now that I have it, I realize that she’s happy and I’m not. Her happiness came at the cost of mine. I feel robbed and exploited.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“Through writing, I feel power for maybe the first time in my life. I don’t have to say somebody else’s words. I can write my own. I can be myself for once. I like the privacy of it. Nobody’s watching. Nobody’s judging. Nobody’s weighing in. No casting directors or agents or managers or directors or Mom. Just me and the page. Writing is the opposite of performing to me. Performing feels inherently fake. Writing feels inherently real.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“I'm allowed to hate someone else's dream, even if it's my reality.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“A little girl shouldn’t have to worry about her entire family,’ Grandpa says to me one afternoon….

‘What?’ I ask, not because I didn’t hear what he said, but because I’m confused. Of course a little girl should worry about her entire family. That’s what little girls do.

‘I just…’ He steps closer to me. ‘I just think…you deserve to be a kid.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“Polacy lubią bowiem uważać się za ofiary i każde weto wobec przyjętych przez siebie norm odbierają jako atak wrogich sił na ich suwerenność...”
― Magdalena Samozwaniec, Trzymajmy się! Życiowe rady dla starych i młodych

“Ja nie wyśmiewam ludzi, ja wyśmiewam obyczaje.”
― Magdalena Samozwaniec, Trzymajmy się! Życiowe rady dla starych i młodych

“Początkowo było mi przykro, ale uświadomiłam sobie, że jeśli ktoś jest durniem, to nie moją sprawą jest uświadamianie mu tego.”
― Magdalena Samozwaniec, Trzymajmy się! Życiowe rady dla starych i młodych

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
― George Orwell, 1984