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“So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and giver her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming