By a Thread
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“You know, babe. Sometimes it’s up to us to tell the universe what we want. Not the other way around.”
“There is nothing more infuriating than a privileged skinny person being embarrassed about their body. It’s like they won the body lottery and they can’t even appreciate it.”
― Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
― Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
“Above and beyond all else it must be borne in mind that hatred tends to dry up the springs of creative thought in the life of the hater, so that his resourcefulness becomes completely focused on the negative aspects of his environment. The urgent needs of the personality for creative expression are starved to death. A man's horizon may become so completely dominated by the intense character of his hatred that there remains no creative residue in his mind and spirit to give to great ideas, to great concepts.”
― Jesus and the Disinherited
― Jesus and the Disinherited
“Actually…someday I’m hoping to write a book about a girl who looks like me.” What I mean is a book specifically about a fat Puerto Rican girl with glasses. I’ve never once read a story about one, and something about that has always made me feel devastatingly alone.”
― Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
― Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
“So no, we aren’t damaged. We have suffered from the brutality of an inherently violent system that favors maleness over womanhood. We’ve been victimized, but that doesn’t make us all victims.”
― Juliet Takes a Breath
― Juliet Takes a Breath
“Libraries had zero tolerance for bullshit. Their walls protected us and kept us safe from all the bastards that never read a book for fun.”
― Juliet Takes a Breath
― Juliet Takes a Breath
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