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“Don't let this anger ruin your life any more than it already has. If you want to every achieve happiness, don't dwell on the past. Instead, start living. What is the point of obsessing that has already happened, and that you cannot change? Live! And be merry.”
― The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
― The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
“A real friend, he'd say, is the one who, when you say you need for them to kill someone for you, asks only, "And where did you want me to dump the body?" I understood that it was hyperbole, but I saw him do barely less more than once, to exhaust himself in research and effort to him his people. Which is how he divided the whole world: his people and everyone else.”
― Butch Is a Noun
― Butch Is a Noun
“She wanted to keep the news to herself for now. Once she'd told someone else, it would all become so final, and then all hope of recovery would be lost. She vowed to herself that she would tell someone the moment she felt she could not longer bear it alone.”
― The Angel Maker
― The Angel Maker
“But only this-that people who are utterly ignorant will believe anything-which you certainly knew before.”
― Herland
― Herland
“I was madly in love with not so much what was there as with what I supposed to be there.”
― Herland
― Herland
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