“From Varenka she learnt that she only had to forget about herself and love others to become a peaceful, happy and fine person.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Oh, the dream. The goddamned man + baby dream. Written by the High Commission on Heterosexual Love and Sexual Reproduction and practised by couples across the land, the dream's a bitch if you're a maternally inclined straight female and not living it by the age of thirty-seven - a situation of a spermicidally toxic flavour.”
― Tiny Beautiful Things
― Tiny Beautiful Things
“There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“I believe there is something bigger than our individual selves that we can touch when we live our lives with integrity, compassion, and love.”
― Tiny Beautiful Things
― Tiny Beautiful Things
“We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write history, so you must always ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there, you begin to get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
Hattie’s 2025 Year in Books
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