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“How easy is it [...] to miss the pain and anguish of one person, if that person keeps quiet, if he keeps it all in, like a bottle stoppered too tightly, the pressure inside building and building, until—what?”

📚 Hamnet
📚👀 by Maggie O'Farrell

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“People love a good redemptive arc for fathers [...] The dad that gets his shit together [...] Starts showing up in his kid’s life ten years too late. But mothers? No. There’s no redemption for mothers. Mothers better be born perfect. Pure and virgin white.”

📚 Cutting Teeth
📚👀 by Chandler Baker

"Every life has its kernel, its hub, its epicentre, from which everything flows out, to which everything returns."

📚 Hamnet
📚👀 by Maggie O'Farrell

“How easy is it [...] to miss the pain and anguish of one person, if that person keeps quiet, if he keeps it all in, like a bottle stoppered too tightly, the pressure inside building and building, until—what?”

📚 Hamnet
📚👀 by Maggie O'Farrell

“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much.”

📚 Yellowface
📚👀 by R.F. Kuang

“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much.”

📚 Yellowface
📚👀 by R.F. Kuang

“I just can’t write on a screen. I have to see it printed. Something about the reassuring solidity of the word. It feels permanent, like everything I compose has weight. It ties me down; it clarifies my thoughts and forces me to be specific.”

📚 Yellowface
📚👀 by R.F. Kuang

“The state needs to recognize women’s rights to their own bodies, and make sure all women can exercise those rights regardless of their race or income.”

📚 Looking for Jane
📚👀 by Heather Marshall

“I am never proud to participate in violence, yet, I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves, that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.”

📚 Letter To My Daughter
📚👀 by Maya Angelou

“And from what I’ve learned, when someone says they’re doing what they think is best for you, it almost always hurts like hell.”

📚 Ice Queen
📚👀 by Gun Brooke

“I allow him to dream of such things because he’s a child, and who knows what the future will bring? Change often starts with the smallest of whispers.”

📚 The House in the Cerulean Sea
📚👀 by TJ Klune

“Sometimes people do things because they are furious or because they are upset or because they are out for blood. And things can hurt. But what hurts the most is when someone does something out of apathy.”

📚 After I Do
📚👀 by Taylor Jenkins Reid

“I allow him to dream of such things because he’s a child, and who knows what the future will bring? Change often starts with the smallest of whispers.”

📚 The House in the Cerulean Sea
📚👀 by TJ Klune

“From what I understood, love was an extreme idea. A word that seemed to force something undefinable into the prison of letters. But the word was used so easily, so often. People spoke of love so casually, just to mean the slightest pleasure or thanks.”

📚 Almond
📚👀 by Won-pyung Sohn

“If I kept quiet when I was expected to get angry, it made me look patient. If I kept silent when I was supposed to laugh, it made me look more serious. And if I kept silent when I was expected to cry, it made me look strong. Silence was definitely golden.”

📚 Almond
📚👀 by Won-pyung Sohn

“You can’t change how other people think and act, but you’re in full control of you. When it comes down to it, the only question that matters is this: If nothing in the world ever changes, what type of man are you gonna be?”

📚 Dear Martin by
📚👀 by Nic Stone

“Some men’s childhoods are permitted to last forever, but women are so often reminded that there is work to be done.”

📚 Carrie Soto is Back
📚👀 by Taylor Jenkins Reid

“It’s a weird phrase in English, in love, like it’s a sea you drown in or a town you live in. You don’t get to be in anything else—in friendship or in anger or in hope. All you can be in is love.”

📚 Turtles All the Way Down
📚👀 by John Green

“I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things.”

📚 The Perks of Being a Wallflower
📚👀 by Stephen Chbosky

“Not everyone is homeless because they choose to be. They’re homeless because there isn’t enough help to go around.”

📚 It Ends with Us
📚👀 by Colleen Hoover

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”

📚 The Bell Jar
📚👀 by Sylvia Plath

“It’s all going away, everyone and everything is dying. Humans suck, man. We think we’re so damn indestructible and infinite because we can think and take care of ourselves, but I bet the dinosaurs thought they’d rule forever too.”

📚 They Both Die at the End
📚👀 by Adam Silvera

“First, there was trust. Then, there was betrayal. You cannot have one without the other. You cannot be betrayed by someone you do not trust.”

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner 📚👀

“Enjoy memories, yes, but don’t be a slave to who you wish you once had been. Those memories aren’t alive. You are.”

📖 Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

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