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"are you here by your own determinism?" Sounds like a line from Wicked

Reread - I read it in high school for book club

"'Let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate.'"

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman with a pen in her hand."

"Hospitals are unnatural, as are novels and saxophones."

What radicalized you? When the Empire blew up Alderaan because a few of its citizens were known to be rebels.

Reread - read it as a freshman in high school

"Dickinson responded without hesitation, 'If such a thing should happen, and a pure-minded, bright-eyed, clear-brained woman was in the presidential chair with a little child in her arms, she would command at least as much respect from the nation as the drunken, bad, traitorous person now occupying that position.'"

In reference to Andrew Johnson, BUT STILL.

"If I loved him less, I would be less bitter."

"Absurdity is a blessing that is best shared."

"'Your father is an American, I believe, Mr. West?' Mary inquired.
'No ma'am. He is a Philadelphian.'
Among general laughter, she protested, 'I do not understand!'
'To be a native of Philadelphia-the birthplace of freedom, unless one is talking to a Boston man-is to know a higher order of allegiance than mere country.'

"A mother, who may never be violent, but who teaches her children (especially her sons) that violence is an acceptable means of exerting social control, is still in collusion with patriarchal violence. Her thinking must be changed."

I read this the summer before 9th grade and referenced it in our suicide unit in health class.

"This is just a job. It's just a way to keep from being drawn and quartered by the Knights of JK Rowling."

WHY are the TERFS getting cool club names??!

"Whether she succeeds or fails, it is not her fate to be a hero."

Honestly, so arrogant of Luke to make a mess of Jabba's staff without considering the repercussions it would have on their home lives or on the lives of innocent sarlaccs.

"...Jess, with her continued failure to identify where the next strike would come from in a world full of knives to the back."

A Max Rebo car chase scene was not something I knew I needed, but I did.

"She was deep in the happiness of such misery, or the misery of such happiness instantly."

"Once so much to each other, now they were strangers. Nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted."

I'm glad all audiobook narrators have had the same snooty Caroline Bingley voice since 2005.

"Chromosome Crusaders" is too cool of a name for TERFs.

"Well, at least in the darkness, there was still the greatest of life's offerings - little sisters."

"I think my heart has always half belonged to the world, and half belonged to me; but I would have given her the whole thing, if she asked me to."

I saw the film on my laptop in college when an English professor mentioned it as an example of something (I forget what). I was obsessed with the name Briony. I'm reading it now for a book about a writer for a reading challenge.

"...every night I bombed harder than the IRA." 😂🙃

"Like a sexually frustrated wife, [Alexander Graham] Bell tirelessly campaigned and advocated for the oral method."

I gagged. (Talking about teaching deaf people. Oh my gosh.)

"...we remember the people we hurt so much more clearly than the people who hurt us."

"as different as chalk and cheese" I need to start using this phrase

"The stories that are familiar will always be our favorites."