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Worlds Unseen (The Seventh World Trilogy, #1) by Rachel Starr Thomson

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“I do not know.” Virginia faltered. “But, if my heart can be called a kingdom, then you have a throne in it. Somehow, I think you always have—though I have never seen you before today.”

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“Almost every woman I have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness, that there is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against ‘losing control’ — of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind.”
― Elana Dykewomon, Sinister Wisdom 36: Surviving Psychiatric Assault & Creating Emotional Well-Being in Our Communities

tags: feminism, madness, sexuality, temper, woman

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“It's not bad to cough. But cover your mouth when coughing. It's not bad to complain. But cover your mouth when complaining, else you'll spread infections of complains on us!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

tags: bad, complain, complaining, complains, complaint, cough, cover-your-mouth, food-for-thought, infection, infections, israelmore-ayivor, mouth, spread

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“My forebears played a significant part in making me who I am. I honor their legacy. I will never forget what they gave me. I will love them until the day I die. And no one can take them away from me.”
― Laurence Overmire, The Ghost of Rabbie Burns: An American Poet's Journey Through Scotland

tags: ancestors, death, genealogy, gifts, legacy, love

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“All dissatisfaction arises from expectation.”
― Joseph Rain, The Unfinished Book About Who We Are

tags: desire, dissatisfaction, expectation, fear, want, who-we-are

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“While dissatisfaction implies either rejection or frustrated pursuit of satisfaction, unsatisfaction is something more like acceptance combined with anticipation. It is acknowledgement of desire without the demand that it be satisfied--a kind of openness that doesn't ask for closure. It is desire that can live with deferral, an embrace of the God-shaped vacuum in us and a commitment to stop trying to make it full, a healthy hunger that is content to wait for the feast.”
― Amy Simpson, Blessed Are the Unsatisfied: Finding Spiritual Freedom in an Imperfect World

tags: anticipation, contentment, delayed-gratification, desire, dissatisfaction, gratitude

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