Holly

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Holly’s Quotes

“We didn’t fail, Niya. We simply didn’t win. History rules, not us.”
― Erika Johansen, Beneath the Keep

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“It was the great gift of humanity, after all: to hold to hope, even when all torches went out.”
― Erika Johansen, Beneath the Keep

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“Percy sees me off at the door with more affirming words but no hug or even a pat upon the shoulder. Thank god for friends who learn to speak to you in your own language rather than making you learn theirs.”
― Mackenzi Lee , The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

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“Dictionaries are the record of how people are already using the language, not providers of words for us to start using.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

tags: dictionaries, language, words

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“Everyone has heard stories of women like us—cautionary tales, morality plays, warnings of what will befall you if you are a girl too wild for the world, a girl who asks too many questions or wants too much. If you set off into the world alone. Everyone has heard stories of women like us, and now we will make more of them.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

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