“It was infuriating how many people got things wrong about you when you were a teenage girl, but as she had learned to do, Katie took her anger and made it into something else.”
― The Broken Girls
― The Broken Girls
“Most of us understand that your future is not promised to you. It is constructed day by day, through the choices you make. Your future is earned, little by little, through hard work and action. If you don't act accordingly, that dream dissolves.
If punishment is based on potential, privileged people will be given lighter sentences.”
― Know My Name
If punishment is based on potential, privileged people will be given lighter sentences.”
― Know My Name
“I wonder what the other women do. How they cope. Do they still find something to enjoy? Do they love their husbands in the same way? Do they hate them, just a little bit?”
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“On the day I turn seventeen, there is a meeting to decide whether I should have the baby or if sneaking me to a clinic for an abortion is worth the PR risk. I am not invited, which is just as well, since my being there might imply that I have some choice in the matter and I know that I have none.”
― The Book of Essie
― The Book of Essie
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
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