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She believed that most of what people believed was magic was actually just a way to wash out the accomplishments of women, make their hard work small.
“Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.”
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“It's a simple idea, but also stupid. Thing is, when stupid ideas work, they become genius ideas. We'll see which way this one falls.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“I can’t transform the world, Jamie. The world’s too big and too messy and too stubborn.”
“Who said anything about transforming the world?” He shrugged. “What about just making it a little better? And then a little better? And then a little more, until, one day, maybe long after we’re gone, it has transformed?”
― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
“Who said anything about transforming the world?” He shrugged. “What about just making it a little better? And then a little better? And then a little more, until, one day, maybe long after we’re gone, it has transformed?”
― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
“What was it like to be loved in a way that felt immutable? To not be told I was loved, but to feel it, to see it most of the time?”
― The Women Could Fly
― The Women Could Fly
“But I also kept thinking of every man I had ever known. The ones from high school who were now in jail or had DUIs or posted pictures on social media of their assault rifles. The men I would see at campus parties where at least two women would discreetly point to them and say, “Watch your drink when he’s around.” The men who would walk too close behind me when I was going home alone at night, who made me grip my keys in my hand, made me reach in my purse and pretend I had a canister of pepper spray in my palm. None of them had to sacrifice their privacy like this. I”
― The Women Could Fly
― The Women Could Fly
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