Anne

“As a woman in this world, it is important to take up space and make yourself heard even if it intimidates and offends powerful men.”
― Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

“And then, when she’s finished and the book ventures out into the world, the readers take their turn, and here another kind of comingling occurs. Because the reader is not a passive receptacle for a book’s contents. Not at all. You are our collaborators, our conspirators, breathing new life into us. And because every reader is unique, each of you makes each of us mean differently, regardless of what’s written on our pages. Thus, one book, when read by different readers, becomes different books, becomes an ever-changing array of books that flows through human consciousness like a wave.”
― Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

“Blackness, like all racial categories, is not a biological fact but has been historically and socially constructed”
― Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

“And you look like a protagonist." She was talking as fast as she could think. "You look like the person who wins in the end. You’re so pretty, and so good. You have magic eyes" she whispered. "And you make me feel like a cannibal.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park