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  • #1
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #2
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
    Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

  • #3
    Fannie Flagg
    “I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”
    Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

  • #4
    Patricia Highsmith
    “I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
    Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

  • #5
    Haruki Murakami
    “Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.”
    Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

  • #6
    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #7
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
    Kazuo Ishiguro

  • #8
    bell hooks
    “When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive. Love and abusive cannot coexist. Abuse and neglect are, by definition, the opposites of nurturance and care.”
    bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

  • #9
    Audre Lorde
    “There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
    Audre Lorde

  • #10
    Audre Lorde
    “If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
    Audre Lorde

  • #11
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés
    “I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.”
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

  • #12
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés
    “Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.”
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

  • #13
    “Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
    Orestes: It’s rotten work.
    Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
    Anne Carson, Euripides

  • #14
    Anaïs Nin
    “Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
    Anais Nin

  • #15
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
    Rumi

  • #16
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    Rumi

  • #17
    “Hope is a discipline.”
    Mariame Kaba

  • #18
    “When you say, “What would we do without prisons?” what you are really saying is: “What would we do without civil death, exploitation, and state-sanctioned violence?”
    Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

  • #19
    Bridges McCall
    “The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.”
    Bridges McCall

  • #20
    Isabel Allende
    “The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
    Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts

  • #21
    Isabel Allende
    “The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
    Isabel Allende

  • #22
    Isabel Allende
    “Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.”
    Isabel Allende

  • #23
    bell hooks
    “To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.”
    Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

  • #24
    Assata Shakur
    “And, If I know anything at all/Its that a wall is just a wall/And nothing more at all/It can be broken down.”
    Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

  • #25
    Assata Shakur
    “And I believe that a lost ship/steered by tired, seasick sailors/can still be guided home/to port”
    Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

  • #26
    Audre Lorde
    “I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.”
    Audre Lorde



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