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“A friend may reach through the bars and hold our hand, but they cannot open the door for us. Only the prisoner has the key. All I can so is remind him we're waiting when he gets out.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

“you and i keep looking for light in the darkness, expecting it to appear. but it already has…broken and cracked and stupid as we are, we’re the light, and we’re spreading”
― Pierce Brown , Morning Star (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“marianne lacks 'warmth', by which she means the ability to beg for love from people who hate her”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“some men’s childhoods are permitted to last forever, but women are so often reminded that there is work to be done”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back