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Fatima Afridi
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“I don’t know how you do it.” Heather. Her neighbor. This was another thing people always said, criticism disguised as compliment. Rosie laughed. Fake laughed. “Well. You know.” “No, I mean seriously.” But she did not mean seriously.
“Preparation is the sign of your intention. You can allow your preparedness to speak for you in rooms you care about.”
― Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
― Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
“An artist spends their whole life trying to get back to the place where their heart was first opened up. —SOME GENIUS”
― Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
― Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
“I wanted to make him as ugly and beautiful and flawed and interesting as the people in the seats who’d come to witness.”
― Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
― Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
“It’s not just that you internalize the shame; rather, it becomes you. You no longer need the people at school telling you not to dress like that; you already do it to yourself.”
― Beyond the Gender Binary
― Beyond the Gender Binary
“We all have patterns we repeat. Learn to recognize your patterns early. Maturation is only learning to spot these patterns and having the self-discipline to make different decisions once you do. Practice will make the process faster.”
― Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
― Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
Fatima’s 2025 Year in Books
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Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Book Club, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Cooking, Ebooks, Fiction, Food, Gay and Lesbian, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Religion, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Spirituality, Thriller, Travel, and Women's Fiction
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