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“I’ve found that cultures often clash for the same reasons that people do. It’s not because we’re so different from each other... it’s because we’re all so goddamn alike”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 6

“Loretta said that, a couple months ago, Cindy asked her what assassination meant. She told her the truth, of course—that an assassination is when someone kills you to make a point. Which was correct enough, Stella supposed, but only if you were an important man. Important men became martyrs, unimportant ones victims. The important men were given televised funerals, public days of mourning. Their deaths inspired the creation of art and the destruction of cities. But unimportant men were killed to make the point that they were unimportant—that they were not even men—and the world continued on.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Maybe all powerful men are cowards at heart, because in their hearts they know power is temporary.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“She was a girl made of aches and she flung her body at the world in the hopes that something, anything, might soothe the tendernesses.”
― Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland