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Jamieanna
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"but it is not as ornaments that I value the noble trees of this country; it is for their usefulness We are stripping the forests, as if a single year would replace what we destroy. But the hour approaches when the laws will take notice of
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“began to intuit dimly why people drank when they went dancing, and it occurred to me that maybe the reason preschool had felt the way it had was that one had had to go through the whole thing sober.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you- the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”
― The Girls
― The Girls
“That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.”
― The Girls
― The Girls
“love could be soft and understanding; that, soft or hard, love was an act of heroism. And I could no longer predict where I would find my heroes.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“a place in the present. This, as they say, is where my roots are. The trick is in reattaching.”
― Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
― Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
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