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“You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Sad eyes, wild heart, nothing but trouble lies ahead for that sort.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

“You never have the sort of friends you have when you’re fifteen ever again. Even if you keep them for the rest of your life, it’s never the same as it was then.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“The righteous man pays the sinner's bill.”
― José Rizal, Noli Me Tángere

“When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Curious how a man often calendared his glory and grief with a woman for asterisk.”
― Wilfrido D. Nolledo, But for the Lovers

“I related to the guillotine the most: I, too, was a direct descendant of gravity, born from women who belonged inside their countries the way blades belonged inside a body.”
― K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

“This story was meant to show you: the ones we should save are already dead. Before he was your agong, he was my ba. Before he was my ba, he was a soldier. When you're a soldier, nothing comes before or after. Don't think I forgive him. Forgiveness is surgery, and I don't have the hand or the eye.”
― K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

“Dear final daughter,
You married a man the opposite of your father but I need to say
all men are synonyms
none the word you’re looking for”
― K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

“If I do nothing else with this life, carrying my mother’s blood is enough.”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“Just use your teeth to feel its grit, she wanted to say. If you want to understand the reality of something, bite into it.”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“He wouldn’t die a lie.”
― Nora Sakavic, The King's Men

“You are a Fox. You are always going to be nothing.”
― Nora Sakavic, The King's Men

“I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“Quick, make a wish.
Take a (second or third or fourth) chance.
Remake the world.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“We wish with our hands, that’s what we do as artists.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“The perspiration of kings is just froth of the decanter. But the pawis of peasants dries up, becomes lead that weighs them down the ages. The master wears a necktie; the slave, a grindstone. Between them no relationship is possible except that which exists between mill and grist. And what is private property without public toil? Yet the world perpetuates only the pyramids, only their pharaohs. Nobody remembers or even likes to admit that both came into existence only through brawn and blood that issued from millions upon millions of nameless serfs. You weep over sunken armadas but not over their galleon slaves. You weep over fallen crowns, not for those beheaded. This must stop! We shall stop you! Labor has a face, labor has a name! You don’t romanticize it. . . you feed its belly . . . heal its sores and sons. All written history glorifies the power of men, not the sweat of man. . . . All this feudal nonsense about lilac-strewn palaces and Cleopatra’s bath! Well, the new chronicle will smell as the tao smells. It shall be carpenter over architect, farmer over agrarianist, citizen over president....”
― Wilfrido D. Nolledo, But for the Lovers

“Exisssstence is meaninglessssssss and random. YOLO.”
― Sophie Kemp, Paradise Logic