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“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes."
"Those are spiders.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

“I had discerned the ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant. I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others—because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retaining power always feels like the way forward.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“somehow it went from too soon to too late, without the right moment in between.”
― Bridget Collins, The Binding