Alina

“When you love someone,” he said haltingly, “. . . you want to make this world look different for them. To give all the ugly stuff meaning, and amplify the good. That’s what you do. For your readers. For me. You make beautiful things, because you love the world, and maybe the world doesn’t always look how it does in your books, but . . . I think putting them out there, that changes the world a little bit. And the world can’t afford to lose that.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“sometimes it was okay to let a little ugliness into your story. That it would never rob you of all the beauty”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Hate, I found out on the ride home, was a less embarrassing way to say fear.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“I don't have the privilege of independently thinking about gender and race.”
― Sharon Lee De La Cruz, I'm a Wild Seed: My Graphic Memoir on Queerness and Decolonizing the World