“Once you get that sense that there’s no real security, that anything at all can happen to you, then every minute you’re okay is a joy. Part of the joy is feeling like you can make your way in a world that isn’t always easy.”
― Becoming Chloe
― Becoming Chloe
“It's not that I don't want to love unharmed people; I just don't understand them.”
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
“The values many of us take for granted today are the result of hard-fought battles that happened years, decades and centuries ago. Working alongside the civil right leaders we revere today, lik Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks, there were hundreds, if not thousands, of now-forgotten activists who sacrificed everything they had so people today could live the way we do. Every generation needs to remember that--and to remember that it's up to us to make sacrifices of our own for the ones who will come next.”
― Lies We Tell Ourselves
― Lies We Tell Ourselves
“You don’t get extra credit for doing what you’re supposed to do.”
― Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
― Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
“Stories were living inside us. I think we were born to tell our stories. After we died, our stories would survive. Maybe it was our stories that fed the universe the energy it needed to keep on giving life.
Maybe all we were meant to do on this earth was to keep on telling stories. Our stories—and the stories of the people we loved.”
― Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
Maybe all we were meant to do on this earth was to keep on telling stories. Our stories—and the stories of the people we loved.”
― Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
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