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“One book in particular stole his attention. Old. Worn. Hardbound, but its peach-colored cover wasn’t blank; it had shiny gold lettering and pictures stamped into it. This book had been loved, the boy knew somehow.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“had a room to myself as a kid, but my mother was always quick to point out that it wasn’t my room, it was her room and I was merely permitted to occupy it. Her point, of course, was that my parents had earned everything and I was merely borrowing the space, and while this is technically true I cannot help but marvel at the singular damage of this dark idea: That my existence as a child was a kind of debt and nothing, no matter how small, was mine. That no space was truly private; anything of mine could be forfeited at someone else’s whim.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“By breaking the locks of stereotypes, you can open doors onto a world where seemingly impossible dreams can come true, and the possibilities are limited only by intention.”
― Vadim Zeland, Master of reality

“As well as a brief sense of freedom from all rules. So perhaps we should all bend the rules sometimes.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie