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“Gloria didn’t understand how Miss Channing couldn’t see: it didn’t matter if a judge accepted her word—she could still talk to a reporter at the Gracetown Herald. She could mention it every time she ran into other white ladies in town, at the market, at the diner, at church, at the picture show. She could write it on a sign and carry it from one end of Main Street to the other.”
― Tananarive Due, The Reformatory

“Haven’t you been listening to a single thing I’ve told you? I loved Celia, but I also, before her, loved Don. In fact, I’m positive that if Don hadn’t turned out to be a spectacular asshole, I probably never would have been capable of falling in love with someone else at all. I’m bisexual. Don’t ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box, Monique. Don’t do that.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“May we always have the choice to err on the side of mercy,”
― T. Kingfisher, What Feasts at Night

“It’s not fair.” “No. It’s not. Life rarely is. But we deal with it the best we can. And we allow ourselves to hope for the best. Because a life without hope isn’t a life lived at all.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea