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“Certain kinds of trauma visited on peoples are so deep, so cruel, that unlike money, unlike vengeance, even unlike justice, or rights, or the goodwill of others, only writers can translate such trauma and turn sorrow into meaning, sharpening the moral imagination.”
― Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

“Too late I realise that she has been the Summer of my life. What a slow and painful death this shall be.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“To save one is to save the world,”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“We all have yavashaki, or stealthy, moments, but we become powerful as women the moment we stop living a lie.”
― Masih Alinejad, The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran