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“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“There are black doctors and doctors and women novelists and novelists. Any less powerful group gets the adjective, while the powerful group takes the noun. The less powerful group usually knows the more powerful one much better than vice versa. People of color have to understand white people in order to survive; women have had to know men. Only the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.”
― Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!

“Godhood is just like girlhood: a begging to be believed”
― Kristin Chang

“I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows