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“At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”
― The Hate U Give
― The Hate U Give
“You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
“What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
― The Hate U Give
― The Hate U Give
“After all, what can a first impression tell us about someone we’ve just met for a minute in the lobby of a hotel? For that matter, what can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli. By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration—and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
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