Ashley Vining
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I think you actually have to have all of your dreams come true to realize they are the wrong dreams.
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“When you’re in a situation like that, when you have a man looming over you, it’s as if every decision you made to lead to that moment—alone with a man you don’t trust—flashes before your eyes. Something tells me men don’t do that same thing. When they are standing there, threatening a woman, I doubt they count every wrong step they made to become the asshole they are. But they should.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“Ashvin acted nothing like how I would have behaved had I had the privilege of being a boy, but then again, most boys knew nothing of their incredible luck.”
― Kaikeyi
― Kaikeyi
“She’s the kind of girl a guy meets when he’s too young, and he fucks up because there’s too much living to do. But later he realizes she’s perfect.”
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“And if your daughter came to you, crying with hunger, would you tell her no? Would you tell her she is too fat, she wants too much, she must shrink into society? No.
Then why would you tell yourself the exact same thing? You are somebody’s daughter.”
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Then why would you tell yourself the exact same thing? You are somebody’s daughter.”
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
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Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Book Club, Chick-lit, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, Young-adult, childrens, and adhd
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