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“The way I see it," Bekah says, "you've got to do the things that make you feel good. Being active--doing things, making things better in whatever ways I can--that makes me feel good. Being passive--waiting around for other people to do things for me or to me--that makes me feel shitty. So, feel shitty or feel good. I choose good.”
― Elana K. Arnold, What Girls Are Made Of

“You can't make people love you. Love isn't something you earn, or something you deserve. Love just is. Or it isn't. Anyway, there are more important things than love. Like service. Being of service. With love, you're waiting around for someone to give it to you. But service, that's something you give. And you don't have to give it just to people you love. It doesn't matter who you serve. It's the serving that matters.”
― Elana K. Arnold, What Girls Are Made Of

“There passes a time of happiness in your life, which I will not describe to you. It is unimportant. Perhaps you think it wrong that I dwell so much on the horrors, the pain, but pain is what shapes us, after all. We are creatures born of heat and pressure and grinding, ceaseless movement. To be still is to be… not alive. But”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“our life is short, we don’t live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.”
― John Hersey, Hiroshima