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“Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you are beautiful. But mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

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“Do your kind even know what love is? Can you feel anything at all, or is it just... programmed?”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

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“This industry is built on silencing us, stomping us into the ground, and hurling money at white people to produce racist stereotypes of us.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“A dream is not reality but who's to say which is which?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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