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“It's the loneliest people who love books the most...it was the opposite of loneliness, too, like there were too many people around me, forced connections, that I needed a little isolation to think on my own, to be my own person.”
― A Woman Is No Man
― A Woman Is No Man
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
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“And what is love, in the end?" Alabaster said. "Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else's journey through life?”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“Too often being happy means being passive or playing it safe. There's no skill required in happiness, no strength of character, nothing extraordinary. Its discontent that drives creation the most--passion, desire, defiance. Revolutions don't come from a place of happiness. If anything, I think it's sadness, or discontent at least, that's at the root of everything beautiful.”
― A Woman Is No Man
― A Woman Is No Man
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