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“Language divides us into fragments, I wanted to be whole.”
― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

“You gotta be nice to strangers even when they are the worst, because they don't know you well enough to understand how shut your big face can mean I've missed you more than the whole world can know.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home

“No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home

“But then, once you agree, it is necessary that you, the cajoler, move into the realm of self-deception, because you can see that it is costing them, you can see how much they don't want to be here, you can see that the act of existing is depleting for them, and then you have to tell yourself every day: I am doing the right thing.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life