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“To be white is to be human; to be white is universal. I only know this because I am not.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
― audre lorde

“Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

“Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.”
― Maya Angelou

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.”
― Mikhail Gorbachev

“Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
― Walt Disney Company

“Resistance was often framed with the laguage of obedience”
― Ruth MacKay, The Limits of Royal Authority: Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile

“So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.”
― George Lucas

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” - Sherlock Homes”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“The dirty secret of fascism is that its appeal is not rational; it is, therefore, impervious to rational argument. You cannot talk someone out of a feeling of hatred.”
― Katherine Cross

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”
― Groucho Marx

“We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Just because it’s made up, doesn’t mean it isn’t real,” said Penn. “Made up is the most powerful real there is.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“One good deed dying tongueless slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit. How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“Ideology: the mistaken belief that your beliefs are neither mistaken nor beliefs.”
― Eric Jarosinski, Nein: A Manifesto

“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“People cope with tragedy in different ways. That's important, Ellie. There's no one right method of grieving. He... how do I explain the way loss changed him? Besides the way his grades dropped. Besides the fair-weather friends he lost. I noticed a change in his eyes. Like he now viewed the world as the place that stole his father.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe