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“And maybe we can’t make it work. But maybe we’re tough and we’re stupid and we’re going to try anyway.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky

“Sameness doesn't present us with metaphorical possibilities, whereas difference - from the average, the typical, the expected - is always rich with possibility.”
― Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

“The air grew charged, heat gathering around them as if instead of starlight and moonbeams, he held all the brilliance of a dying star, engulfing her with the pull of his gravity.”
― Lori M. Lee, Color Outside the Lines

“They were all girls who grew up in sprawling houses, who'd never walked through the desert, who'd never stepped on a snake in the dry grass. They were girls who could not stand the rays of the Earth's sun unless it was shining through a tinted window.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Binti