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

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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

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

“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
― Selwyn Duke

“You go to Brighton! -- I would not trust you so near it as East-Bourne, for fifty pounds! No, Kitty, I have at last learnt to be cautious, and you will feel the effects of it. No officer is ever to enter my house again, nor even to pass through the village. Balls will be absolutely prohibited, unless you stand up with one of your sisters. And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.”
― Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means

“You don't know what it's like trying to eat enough to live on and at the same time avoid fats and carbohydrates.”
― Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means

“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“he placed his hands
on my mind
before reaching
for my waist
my hips
or my lips
he didn't call me
beautiful first
he called me
exquisite

- how he touches me”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“how you love yourself is
how you teach others
to love you”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“you are the faint line between faith and blindly waiting - letter to my future lover”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Because sometimes you just feel sad and you can't explain it.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“But what now? What am I supposed to do with all these feelings?”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Never say no when you really want to say yes.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“Smirking, he says, "Whatever spell you just tried to cast on me, it didn't work, so I think you need to go back to Hogwarts.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I want to say yes, but I don't want to be with a boy whose heart belongs to somebody else. Just once, I want to be somebody else's first choice”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Because I have to admit: there's something really badass about truly, honestly not caring what people think about you.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“I'm on the toilet at the 9:30 Club and I'm wondering how mermaids pee.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“Even if he likes me, I’m not sure he’d like me naked. I hate that I’m even thinking that. I hate hating my body. Actually, I don’t even hate my body. I just worry everyone else might. Because chubby girls don’t get boyfriends, and they definitely don’t have sex. Not in movies—not really—unless it’s supposed to be a joke. And I don’t want to be a joke.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“You would matter. That's the thing. I get into this weird place sometimes where I worry about that. I've never told anyone this - not my moms, not Cassie - but that's the thing I'm most afraid of. Not mattering. Existing in a world that doesn't care who I am.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“I’m not trying to overthink things. I’m trying to be less careful. But you have to be your heart’s own goalie.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“I don’t feel like doing anything. I don’t even know what I need right now. I just want to feel normal.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“It’s strange how you can sometimes still feel self-conscious around people you’ve known your whole life.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited