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“To be rendered powerless does not destroy your humanity. Your resilience is your humanity. The only people who lose their humanity are those who believe they have the right to render another human being powerless. They are the weak. To yield and not break, that is incredible strength.”
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“Look at me. I put this war paint on, but underneath I’m scarred and scared and horny and tired and love you.”
― Three Women
― Three Women
“Everyone on Earth, they'd tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot."
"Oh," she said. "Oh."
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"I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full."
He smiled. "That's a very good sentence. Not all words hold that much.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
"Oh," she said. "Oh."
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"I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full."
He smiled. "That's a very good sentence. Not all words hold that much.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“few trusted advisers, the president confided that he was worried about some interconnected trends taking root in the country—and most acutely within the Republican Party. There was protectionism, a belief that global commerce and international trade deals wounded the domestic workforce. There was isolationism, a reluctance to exert American influence and strength abroad. And there was nativism, a prejudice against all things foreign: traditions, cultures, people. “These isms,” Bush told his team, “are gonna eat us alive.”
― American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
― American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
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