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  • #1
    Kathleen Balma
    “I decided at some point that if a book was good enough for me to read through to the end, it deserves 5 stars. If not, I should not give it a rating at all. This why all my ratings are 5-star ratings. I don't believe in finishing books I don't love, and I believe very strongly that low ratings do more harm than good to my fellow writers.”
    Kathleen Balma

  • #2
    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise
    From its own ashes
    A phoenix
    First
    Must
    Burn.”
    Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #3
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Choose your leaders
    with wisdom and forethought.
    To be led by a coward
    is to be controlled
    by all that the coward fears.
    To be led by a fool
    is to be led
    by the opportunists
    who control the fool.
    To be led by a thief
    is to offer up
    your most precious treasures
    to be stolen.
    To be led by a liar
    is to ask
    to be told lies.
    To be led by a tyrant
    is to sell yourself
    and those you love
    into slavery.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #4
    Octavia E. Butler
    “There is no end
    To what a living world
    Will demand of you.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

  • #5
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Beware:
    Ignorance
    Protects itself.
    Ignorance
    Promotes suspicion.
    Suspicion
    Engenders fear.
    Fear quails,
    Irrational and blind,
    Or fear looms,
    Defiant and closed.
    Blind, closed,
    Suspicious, afraid,
    Ignorance
    Protects itself,
    And protected,
    Ignorance grows.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #6
    Octavia E. Butler
    “All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

  • #7
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Beware:
    At war
    Or at peace,
    More people die
    Of unenlightened self-interest
    Than of any other disease.”
    Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #8
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Embrace diversity.
    Unite—
    Or be divided,
    robbed,
    ruled,
    killed
    By those who see you as prey.
    Embrace diversity
    Or be destroyed.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

  • #9
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Kindness eases change.
    Love quiets fear.
    And a sweet and powerful
    Positive obsession
    Blunts pain,
    Diverts rage,
    And engages each of us
    In the greatest,
    The most intense
    Of our chosen struggles.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #10
    Octavia E. Butler
    “The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how beautiful that glint of water was through the trees.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

  • #11
    Octavia E. Butler
    “The child in each of us
    Knows paradise.
    Paradise is home.
    Home as it was
    Or home as it should have been.

    Paradise is one's own place,
    One's own people,
    One's own world,
    Knowing and known,
    Perhaps even
    Loving and loved.

    Yet every child
    Is cast from paradise-
    Into growth and new community,
    Into vast, ongoing
    Change.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

  • #12
    “[BURR]
    I am the one thing in life I can control.”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

  • #13
    “You have no control. Who lives, who dies, who tells your story.”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

  • #14
    “[HAMILTON]
    I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda

  • #15
    “Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

  • #16
    “[HAMILTON}
    There's a million things I haven't done but just you wait.
    Just you wait.”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda

  • #17
    “I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution



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