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“She tried to breathe in the feeling of doing something good and right and difficult that no one could understand. She didn't wonder if she was right; she wondered why it was her destiny to do so many good, hard things.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“I cannot mourn for what I have not known.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“I am transformed but not yet, exactly. The transformation has begun-this pain, this excruciating pain, it is part of the process-and will not end until—well, I suppose I don't know when. Will I ever be done, transformed in the past tense, or will I always be trans-forming, better and better until I die?”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories