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Carla’s Quotes

“When they own languages, she thought, we are terrorists. When we own them, we are revolutionaries.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Book of Joan

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“I had brutal beginnings. I will not let the darkness in.”
― Melissa Jennings, Afterlife

tags: afterlife, darkness, endurance, growth, mental-health, strength

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“too—my god, what kind of brutal abomination dismisses the suffering of the majority of the world’s population as worth sustaining a tiny number of pinheaded elites—is proof enough that we don’t deserve a future. I”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Book of Joan

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“You have so many autumns: so many selves, waiting to be shaken down.”
― Zhou Mengdie

tags: autumn

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“Everyone’s last wish turned out to be love: may I be consumed by the simplicity and purity of a love story, any love, base love or heroic love or transgressive love or love that is a blind and lame and ridiculous lie—anything the opposite of alone and lonely and sexless, and the absence of someone to care about or talk to.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Book of Joan

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