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Time and thinking tame the strongest grief, I was taught, but many a proverb’s promise proves false. I’ve found that thinking only wears away at grief, grinds it deeper, and time only preserves it, encases it in glass for the ages.

Learned by Heart, Emma Donoghue

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Loving people. That's a fucking flaw if you want to be a hero. Being willing to give your life for someone is all well and good but it means sooner or later you'll give your life for someone and that'll be the end of the story. Heroes can't afford for that to happen.

Herc, Phoenicia Rogerson

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If unkindness is indeed a serial killer, then my revelation is that I was my own murderer. I had taught myself to bend to my own unkindness first, so that I would be able to withstand the unkindness of others. I will not bend anymore.

Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement, Tarana Burke

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We are, all of us, given such a brief moment of time together, it hardly seems fair. But it’s precious, and maybe it’s enough, and maybe it’s right that our bodies dissolve into the earth, giving our energy back to it, feeding the little creatures in the ground and giving nutrients to the soil, and maybe it’s right that our consciousness rests. The thought is peaceful.

Migrations, Charlotte McConaghy

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The west you talk about doesn’t exist. It’s a fairytale, a fantasy you sell yourself because the alternative is to admit that you are the least important character in your own story. You invent an entire world because your conscience demands it, you invent good people and bad people and you draw a neat line between them because your simplistic morality demands it. But the two kinds of people in this world are not good and bad, they are engines and fuel. Go ahead, change your country, change your name, change your accent, pull the skin right off your bones, but in their eyes they will always be the engines and you will always, always be fuel.

What Strange Paradise, Omar El Akkad

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There is a time for any fledgling artist where one’s taste exceeds one’s abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin

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More people’s lives have been shaped by violence than we like to think. And more people’s lives have been shaped by silence than we think.

Black Cake, Charmaine Wilkerson

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I do not want you to believe, my readers, that what the queen felt was remorse. When witchblood breaks good, it makes saints, but when it breaks bad, it makes monsters.

The Halcyon Fairy Book, T. Kingfisher

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Learn what you can. Use what you learn. You have not failed yet.

Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher

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In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don’t. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color “criminals” and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind. Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination—employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service—are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander

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We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin

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And what about a person's life? How do you make a map of that? The borders people draw between themselves. The scars left along the ground of one's heart.

Black Cake, Charmaine Wilkerson

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Hate is loud, but I think you'll learn it's because it's only a few people shouting, desperate to be heard. You might not ever be able to change their minds, but so long as your remember you're not alone, you will overcome.

The House in the Cerulean Sea, T.J. Klune

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But Corinthians didn’t tell her about the work of love, a work as endless as mining the earth for obsidian, transmuting it from rock to blade. If you didn’t kneel, if you didn’t take your tool in hand, if you didn’t search, you would have nothing. The obsidian of love would stay buried, and you would only half know, and you would only half be known.

More Than You'll Ever Know, Katie Gutierrez

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Terrible people can do good things sometimes. But they like doing the terrible things more.

All the Sinners Bleed, S.A. Cosby

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She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated.

Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher

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The genius of the current caste system, and what most distinguishes it from its predecessors, is that it appears voluntary. People choose to commit crimes, and that's why they are locked up or locked out, we are told. This feature makes the politics of responsibility particularly tempting, as it appears the system can be avoided with good behavior. But herein lies the trap. All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander

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