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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.”
― Danzy Senna

“If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.”
― Herta Müller, The Land of Green Plums

“The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Sometimes,” he said after a second that lasted a million years, “things get broken. And they can’t be fixed.”
― Megan Hart, Broken

“I have realized that for those who live in the West, freedom is so often something they take for granted. It has always been there for them. It is their unnoticed, unrecognized, constant companion and friend. But for those of us who come from countries like Sudan, freedom is wonderful and precious.”
― Mende Nazer , Slave: My True Story

“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall. They hold in their creases the ability to change one's life, organically, forever. Even when you shake them out, they've left permanent wrinkles in the fabric of your soul.”
― Julie Gregory, Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood

“I was trying to lose weight on the surface, but deeper, I was acknowledging that I’d been wrong for sixteen years and had to work to right myself. How do you walk away from all you’ve ever been?”
― Andie Mitchell, It Was Me All Along: A Memoir

“In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

“You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.”
― Will Rogers

“Society just doesn't care about young people anymore, even if we are the future.”
― Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary

“No matter what race we are, what ethnic background, sexual orientation, or what views we may have, we are all human. Unfortunately, not all humans see it that way.”
― Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary

“Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.”
― Ann Brashares, The Last Summer of You and Me

“Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.”
― Cheryl Rainfield, Scars

“You can see when someone's been hurt the way I was. It's obvious. Something changes in their eyes; pain becomes their center, even when they try to hide it.”
― Cheryl Rainfield, Scars

“Hide your intentions not by closing up (with the risk of appearing secretive, and making people suspicious) but by talking endlessly about your desires and goals-just not the real ones.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“The pain never really goes away. It gets better, and you finally get to a place where you aren’t thinking about it every minute of every day.”
― Donna Mabry, Maude

“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

“Why is love intensified by absence?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Do you ever miss him?
Every day. Every minute.
Every minute, she says.
Yes, it's that way, isn't it?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“She had lost him. Lost him because she'd let him go. And she could not allow herself to regret that decision.”
― Harriet Evans, Happily Ever After

“One day, my sweet girl, some lucky man will come and help you understand the very meaning of love. He will sweep you off your feet and show you what it is to place your heart in someone else’s care to willingly offer them the gift of your soul.”
― Tillie Cole, Sweet Home

“I get so lonely that at times, I literally think it might kill me.”
― Tillie Cole, Sweet Home

“I start to see that I surround myself with broken people; more broken than me. Ah, yes, let me count your cracks. Let's see, one hundred, two... yes, you'll do nicely. A cracked companion makes me look more whole, gives me something outside myself to care for. When I'm with whole, healed people I feel my own cracks, the shatters, the insanities of dislocation in myself.”
― Julie Gregory, Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood

“The thing about writing is I can't tell if it's healing or destroying.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“i am a museum full of art
but you had your eyes shut”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives”
― Rupi Kaur

“That's the big picture, your happiness. And health. You should never care what a man thinks of you -- until he demonstrates to you that he cares about making you happy. If he isn't trying to make you happy, then send him back from "whence" he came because winning him over will have no benefit. At the end of the day, happines, joy...and yes...your emotional stability...those comprise the only measuring stick you really need to have.”
― Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl―A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship