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Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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“Beauty's Curse

Her bow is drawn to worlds of dark,
where arrows spring and miss their mark—
she'll turn their heads but not their hearts.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

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“Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.”
― Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

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“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“the glory of the protagonist is always paid for
by a lot of secondary characters”
― Tony Hoagland

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“A poem is a heroic act of integration that binds into rough harmony the chorus of forces within and outside the soul. A poem struggles to orchestrate, prioritize, cohere, and coordinate these potentially shattering forces.”
― Tony Hoagland, Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft

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