Lejla Halilovic
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“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind.”
― Educated: A Memoir
― Educated: A Memoir
“Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“I had no altar, but I did not need one: anywhere I was became my temple.”
― Circe
― Circe
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