Angi

“She was scared of both options—letting go and trying again—and the only response was to stand still.
But she knew she couldn’t stay in that space forever.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Make the Season Bright

“It feels bigger than I want it to be. Do I really have to announce this? Can't I just feel something and live inside it while it's happening and not analyze it to death?”
― Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

“She wanted to be seen as strong, as immovable, untouchable. Because if that’s how people saw her, that’s what she’d be. And she’d never have to feel inadequate again, never have to feel that innate something that was missing inside her, that something that made people leave her and forget her so goddamn easily.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Make the Season Bright

“a colonial war waged against the indigenous population, by a variety of parties, to force them to relinquish their homeland to another people against their will.”
― Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017