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“You’re like no other girl I’ve ever known, Reina.” “I’m like every girl you’ve known if she’d been stuck with my life.”
“The notion of following your heart’s desire, of going wherever you chose, did not exist here, and I did not see any way to let them know what it felt like, especially since, after so little time in their system, I had lost my own sense of freedom.”
― Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
― Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
“The freedom to choose, in other words, means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.”
― Appetites: Why Women Want
― Appetites: Why Women Want
“Lola—a girl so outwardly preoccupied with wokeness; who only read overhyped memoirs written by women under thirty having feeble epiphanies about themselves; who had “she/her” written in all her social media bios despite very clearly never being in danger of being misgendered—”
― Ghosts
― Ghosts
“It was a glorious time for pop culture, the decade of Nirvana and Lollapalooza and Clueless and My So-Called Life and Sassy and Pulp Fiction and Greg Maddux and Garth Brooks and Green Day and Drew and Dre and Snoop and Wayne’s World. It was the decade Johnny Depp got his Winona Forever tattoo, the decade Beavis and Butthead got butt-shaped tattoos on their butts.”
― Love is a Mix Tape
― Love is a Mix Tape
“Your dreams are messages. They are telling you to pay attention to the world around you.”
― The Veins of the Ocean
― The Veins of the Ocean
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