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A reputation of being difficult isn’t enough to blacklist you from any industry when you’re as white and male and traditionally handsome as Charlie,
“Nobody gets to tell me how my story ends but me, she thought, and the words were true enough that she repeated them aloud: “Nobody gets to tell me how my story ends but me.”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
“Their love wanted to fix her, and refused to see that she wasn't broken.”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
“Only by learning about the journeys of others can we truly understand our own”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
“Parents don't always like to admit that things have changed. They want the world to be exactly the way it was before their children went away on these life-changing adventures, and when the world doesn't oblige, they try to force it into the boxes they build for us.”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
“In her world, the law was upside down. People had to break the law to live. The prohibition on drug-dealing, a serious crime in most countries, is not viewed in the same way – as protective of society – by North Koreans. It is viewed as a risk, like unauthorized parking. If you can get away with it, where’s the harm?”
― The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
― The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
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