Ellen Gallagher
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“How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?”
“Silence is a protective coating over pain.”
― We Were Liars
― We Were Liars
“If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.”
― We Were Liars
― We Were Liars
“When you love somebody you decide what you can take and what will kill you and work backward from what will kill you.”
― No One Is Coming to Save Us
― No One Is Coming to Save Us
“Son, if there's on thing I know," and Colin thought about how old people always like to tell you the one thing they know, "it's that there's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
“I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others—because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retaining power always feels like the way forward.”
― Educated
― Educated
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