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“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit.”
― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

“I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.”
― Melina Marchetta, The Piper's Son

“Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you'd have nobody to help you.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“To have somone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“Simple dreams are the hardest to come true”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“Belief means nothing without actions”
― Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big In This?

“Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes.”
― Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big In This?

“What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside,were it really counts ?”
― Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big In This?

“I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.”
― Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big In This?

“We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.”
― Randa Abdel-Fattah, Where the Streets Had a Name

“Too many people look at it as though it (the hijab) has bizarre powers sewn into its microfibers. Powers that transform Muslim girls into UCOs (Unidentified Covered Objects), which turn Muslim girls from an 'us' to a 'them.”
― Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big In This?

“The scariest thing about people like Terrence and my parents is not that they can be cruel. It's that they can be kind too.”
― Randa Abdel-Fattah, When Michael Met Mina

“Bad things happen when good people remain silent.”
― Randa Abdel-Fattah, When Michael Met Mina

“jack-o’-lantern. You know?” “Okay,” he says, nodding. “Like someone drew a face on me and carved it into my skin. Scooped out my insides. Just hollowed out, everything scraped clean. And then lit a fire in me and left me out in the cold. And I just…”
― Amber Smith, The Way I Am Now

“Like someone drew a face on me and carved it into my skin. Scooped out my insides. Just hollowed out, everything scraped clean. And then lit a fire in me and left me out in the cold.”
― Amber Smith, The way I am now

“no one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again. aa”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Actually, the problem is that I can’t lose my mind,” I said. “It’s inescapable.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“The problem with happy endings is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get better and some things get worse. And then eventually you die.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I is the hardest word to define.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Don't stay where you are needed. Go where you are loved.”
― Lang Leav, Love Looks Pretty on You

“I have been quiet lately, I know. Not because I don’t have anything to say, but because I have too much.”
― Lang Leav, Love Looks Pretty on You

“The most beautiful thing is not when you learn to live
without something; it’s the moment you realize you never
needed it in the first place.”
― Lang Leav, Love Looks Pretty on You

“Loyalty

The only ones
they can turn
against you
are those
who were never
with you.”
― Lang Leav, Love Looks Pretty on You

“I have buried myself so deep in my words that sometimes I can’t tell if I am the person writing or the one hiding between the lines”
― Lang Leav, Love Looks Pretty on You

“Anxiety

I struggle with things that are as easy to others as breathing.

Like breathing. Like answering the phone. Or sending that email I have been meaning to for weeks.

I panic when I am asked out to dinner, even if it’s with someone I really want to see.

It’s hard for me to commit to anything, and when I do, I overthink it until my brain tells me I have made a mistake, like a rat caught in a maze, trying to claw its way out.

I don’t know why I am like this. People ask me why I can’t do anything without jumping through a thousand thoughts, like hoops. But sometimes I wonder if my inability to function in the real world is really such a bad thing. I wonder if that’s why I’ve spent so much time sheltered in my imagination.

And because I can’t live in the real world, I create worlds to belong to. And I wonder if the very thing I’ve always been told is my weakness, has all along, been my strength.”
― Lang Leav, Love Looks Pretty on You

“How do I thank my mother
for giving me the life
she desperately wanted
for herself?”
― Lang Leav, Love Looks Pretty on You