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“Art is not one great act of creation, but many small ones. When you read one of my poems, you fail to see the weeks of careful work it took me to build it--the thinking, the scratched-out words, the pages I burned in disgust. All you see, in the end, is what I want you to see.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
“There is, it seems to me, a certain type of man who is terrified of the idea of a woman wielding power, of any sort; the type of man who is willing to dress up his terror in any sort of trappings to legitimise it.”
― The Ninth Rain
― The Ninth Rain
“Any institution that claims to keep women locked up for their own good should be watched very close, in my opinion.”
― The Ninth Rain
― The Ninth Rain
“I don't want an easy life. I want a meaningful one.”
― Girls of Paper and Fire
― Girls of Paper and Fire
“Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
Karissa’s 2024 Year in Books
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