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“When you're living your life, you're so inside your head, you're swirling around in your own pain, that its hard to see how obvious it is to the people around you. These songs I was writing felt coded and secret.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it’s a gut punch. That’s why it’s a dangerous thing, when you go loving the wrong person. When you love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. You have to be with someone that deserves your faith and you have to be deserving of someone else’s. It’s sacred.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“If I was going to fall, I would hang on to my small comforts, at least, as long as I possibly could.”
― Sylvia Plath

“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail

“they show the kalon kakon, ant’agathoio – beautiful evil, the price of good – to the other gods, who realize that mortal men will have no device or remedy against her. From this woman, Hesiod says, comes the whole deadly race of women. Always nice to be wanted.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“We know Pandora is beautiful. But what is she actually like? We get only one phrase which might tell us, before Hesiod gets side-tracked explaining how women will only want you if you aren’t poor, and comparing them unfavourably to bees.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“When women take up space, there is less available for men. But it means we get a whole story instead of half of one. It scarcely needs saying that our understanding of the story of Oedipus is enriched when we know the story of Jocasta, and vice versa.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“A beautiful woman whom men find all the more alluring because she is essentially mute? I know, I always think the shock will kill me too.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“And if history has taught us anything, it is that women making a noise – whether speaking or shouting – tend to be viewed as intrinsically disruptive.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“The message is simple: women are stronger together than apart, even ones with superpowers.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“In perhaps one of the greatest digital curatorial comments in any museum in the world, the Cleveland Museum of Art website used to list the description of the pot – ‘Here Medea flees the scene after murdering her children on a flying serpent-pulled chariot’ – under the heading, ‘Fun Fact’.45 I salute this curator.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“Archaic male demonstrations of protectiveness are not sexy. Archaic male demonstrations of protectiveness are not sexy. Archaic— Dammit, this is sexy, and my body knows it.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“Just showed that you can write a magical world brimming with complex, label-defying characters and still be a trans-exclusionary feminist disappointment.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“I grab a fistful of gummies and shove them in my mouth. Hopefully, I’ll choke and black out so we can forget about this mortifying corner I’ve backed us into.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“You got ahead of me,” he says quietly. “Trying to do a dip before I’ve even asked you to dance.” Fresh tears spill down my cheeks. “Søren.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“He sighed, paid, picked up his tray and left her alone. According to his research, human women didn’t like being harassed 24/7. He still wasn’t 100% clear on how not to do that, but he was trying his best.”
― Talia Hibbert, Mating the Huntress

“Oh, and he’d bought cupcakes. He’d stalked Chastity long enough to know that she liked cupcakes.”
― Talia Hibbert, Mating the Huntress

“Of course, he’d have to give the huntress a stern talking to before he thanked her. It was very rude to invade a man’s forest and try to murder him. He understood the impulse—he was, after all, a slavering beast of the darkness and denizen of evil—but he couldn’t condone the random slaughtering of any species, as a matter of principal.”
― Talia Hibbert, Mating the Huntress

“Grabbing her other wrist, Luke arched a brow and asked, “You done?”
― Talia Hibbert, Mating the Huntress

“headache and a trashed living room, his first thought hadn’t been to find and flirt with his mate. He’d intended to find and spank his mate for fucking up a perfectly good coffee table with her WWE shenanigans, and also to have a serious conversation with her about how loving couples shouldn’t stab each other.”
― Talia Hibbert, Mating the Huntress

“She’d admitted her attraction; she’d hinted at feeling more; and now, his bloodthirsty little murderess was openly reluctant to end his existence. Progress!”
― Talia Hibbert, Mating the Huntress

“When she told him the news he hugged her and hugged her and they danced around the palace making so much noise that Helios banged on the walls and grumbled that some people had to be up before dawn.”
― Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“This is so similar to the story of Apollo and Hyacinthus that you wonder if some bard somewhere got drunk or confused.”
― Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“Smyrna’s baby grew up to be a youth of the most unparalleled physical attractiveness. Oh dear, I’ve written this too many times for you to believe me again.”
― Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined