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“I don’t know why hurting means getting better.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“being a woman has meant being someone who gets talked over in conversations or ignored; someone who gets judged as a body instead of as a sentient soul; someone who, no matter who you are or what you are doing, always has to be on guard, lest someone else decide that you’re going to be his victim.”
― Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

“How similar does someone have to be to you before you remember to see them, first, as human?”
― Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

“I’ve been in the world three weeks and a half, I still never know what’s going to hurt.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room