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Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2) by Abby Jimenez

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“All they do is lie and throw off your PH balance. They are a constant reminder that we don’t choose our sexuality, because who in their right mind would choose to be attracted to men.

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“Think carefully about the consequences of your actions not because you fear punishment, but because what you do is powerful.”
― Joyce Higginbotham, Paganism: An Introduction to Earth-Centered Religions

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“He was a poor man in a criminal justice system that treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent. - Bryan Stevenson”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

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“Destructive beliefs don't hurt the Divine, but they can hurt us, our society, and our world. We have the right to insist that the beliefs we adopt, even about Divinity, be healthy and productive and serve us well.”
― Joyce Higginbotham, Paganism: An Introduction to Earth-Centered Religions

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“And when children don’t feel respected by the decisions of their parents, their beliefs about how they are valued are crushed. (Dr. Bruce Perry)”
― Oprah Winfrey, What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

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“People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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