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“Everybody's damaged by something.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“I don’t know why hurting means getting better.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“I bang my head on a faucet. “Careful.” Why do persons only say that after the hurt?”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Somewhere between good and bad - bits of both stuck together."
Ma”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“I’ve been in the world three weeks and a half, I still never know what’s going to hurt.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“How similar does someone have to be to you before you remember to see them, first, as human?”
― Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

“being a woman has meant being someone who gets talked over in conversations or ignored; someone who gets judged as a body instead of as a sentient soul; someone who, no matter who you are or what you are doing, always has to be on guard, lest someone else decide that you’re going to be his victim.”
― Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

“Sometimes, making the world a better place just involves creating space for the people who are already in it.”
― Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

“wonder if it would be like being forced to wear size two clothes when you are a size twelve. You wouldn’t be able to move comfortably. You’d always be aware of the fact that something pinched. There would be wardrobe malfunctions and embarrassment when you thought people were looking at you oddly. You’d be thinking constantly about taking off the outfit just so you could breathe.”
― Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey