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“Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn't say them, couldn't sort out my feelings about them, couldn't keep them bottled inside me.”
― Kindred
― Kindred
“We teach girls to be likeable, to be nice, to be false. And we do not teach boys the same. This is dangerous. Many sexual predators have capitalized on this. Many girls remain silent when abused because they want to be nice. Many girls spend too much time trying to be “nice” to people who do them harm. Many girls think of the “feelings” of those who are hurting them. This is the catastrophic consequence of likeability. We have a world full of women who are unable to exhale fully because they have for so long been conditioned to fold themselves into shapes to make themselves likeable. So”
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“I risked and I lost but the risk was still worth it.”
― Mistborn: The Final Empire
― Mistborn: The Final Empire
“Kevin, you don’t have to beat people to treat them brutally.”
― Kindred
― Kindred
“you asked me if I believed in eternal love. Love is something way too abstract and indefinable. It depends on what we perceive and what we experience. If we don't exist, it doesn't exist. And we change so much; love must change as well.
Love catches fire, it trespasses, it breaks, we break, it comes back to life...we come back to life. Love may not be eternal but, it can make us eternal...”
― Le bleu est une couleur chaude
Love catches fire, it trespasses, it breaks, we break, it comes back to life...we come back to life. Love may not be eternal but, it can make us eternal...”
― Le bleu est une couleur chaude
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