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“How little imagination and courage we show in our hatreds. If we earn fifty cents an hour, we admire the rich and pity the poor, and we reserve the full force of our venom for those who make a penny more or a penny less. That's why there isn't a revolution every ten years.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“Once upon a time we had our honest living that was God and country. Then the world turns and there's no God anymore, no country, but it's still in your blood that coal is God's gift and you want to believe. Because otherwise it was one more scam in the fuck-train that's railroaded over these mountains since George Washington rode in and set his crew to cutting down our trees. Everything that could be taken is gone. Mountains left with their heads blown off, rivers running black. My people are dead of trying, or headed that way, addicted as we are to keeping ourselves alive. There's no more blood here to give, just war wounds. Madness. A world of pain, looking to be killed. ”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“Which is just to say, be careful when choosing what you're proud of - because the world has every intention of using it against you.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy... they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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

“Mostly, my opinion was 'oh shit'.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) Dramatized Adaptation

“At least I wasn't the only one who didn't know what I was doing.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

“There were many ways to be alienated from someone, few to actually belong.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“I was tempted to buy a TV, they are very friendly and comforting. You can just be with them, passively, breathe and every few minutes swallow and once in a while go to the bathroom.”
― Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“We are alive because we eat Life. That is some powerful magick to contemplate.”
― Gwion Raven, The Magick of Food: Rituals, Offerings & Why We Eat Together

“Curiosity is the most magickal of ingredients you can ever hope to cultivate.”
― Gwion Raven, The Magick of Food: Rituals, Offerings & Why We Eat Together

“Always remember to believe in yourself, not in what others believe about you. There is greatness in us all”
― Kiran Dellimore

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
― Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

“That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”
― Raymond Carver

“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

Cesar Chavez
Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984 ”
― Cesar Chavez

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
― Aristotle

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“We first make our habits, then our habits make us.”
― John Dryden

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“A different son might have been able to say something. A different father might have been able to hear it.”
― Tova Mirvis, We Would Never: A Novel

“Props may be useful, but it is the mind that works magic.”
― Starhawk, The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess

“The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.”
― Toni Morrison

“She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers