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“They want to live, Alex. They want the life they were cheated out of. So if they see an open door . . . or an open mind . . . some of them come in never intending to leave.”
― Kay Hooper, Out of the Shadows

“The real problem isn’t our limited time. The real problem—or so I hope to convince you—is that we’ve unwittingly inherited, and feel pressured to live by, a troublesome set of ideas about how to use our limited time, all of which are pretty much guaranteed to make things worse.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“Do you blame Shakespeare for any of it?”
The question is so unlikely, so nonsensical coming from such a sensible man, that I can’t suppress a smile. “I blame him for all of it.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“He said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“И, увидев это, впал в отчаяние светлый юноша Туташха, ибо понял: никто не спасет род человеческий, кроме самого человека.
И решил тогда Туташха из духа всеобъемлющего и всемирного превратиться в человека.
И был он тогда в замыслах своих уже Богом.”
― Чабуа Амиреджиби

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― OffPOD Luxury Garden Rooms

“A few minutes later they reached the east side of Bayport. Frank turned into Springdale Avenue. By the time they passed a small stone house numbered fifty-two, they had entered a section where the sidewalks came to an end and buildings were far apart. The car bumped along an uneven dirt road. “We’re practically out in the country,” said Joe. “I’ll bet we’re beyond the city limits.”
― Franklin W. Dixon, The Phantom Freighter

“sólo los tontos se esfuerzan por hacerse honrados y, como proclama la famosa fábula de Mandeville (La fibula de las abejas, moraleja), no tenemos más remedio que convivir con fraude, lujo, egoísmo y todo tipo de vicios, mientras disfrutemos de sus beneficios.”
― José Ramón Recuero, LA CUESTIÓN DEL BIEN Y DEL MAL

“The albino, Josiah, walks into the living room with the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. I finally get to see a female angel up close. Her features are so fine and delicate that it’s impossible not to stare. She looks like she was the mold for Venus, Goddess of Love. Her waist-length hair shimmers in the light as she moves, matching the golden plumage of her wings. Her cornflower blue eyes would be the perfect reflection of innocence and all that is wholesome, except that there’s something sliding behind them. Something that hints that she should be the poster child for the master race. Those eyes assess me from the top of my wet and stringy hair to the tips of my bare toes. I become acutely aware that I was overenthusiastic when I shoveled the rib meat into my mouth. My cheeks bulge and I can barely keep my lips closed as I chew as fast as I can. Rib meat is not something I can swallow in one lump. I hadn’t bothered to brush my hair, or even dry it before diving into the feast after my shower, so it hangs limp and dripping onto my red dress. Her Aryan eyes see it all and judge me. Raffe gives me a look and rubs his finger on his cheek. I swipe my hand across my face. It comes away smeared with meat sauce. Great. The woman turns her eyes to Raffe. I have been dismissed. She gives him a long appraising look as well, drinking in his near-nakedness, his muscular shoulders, his wet hair. Her eyes slide over to me in a quick accusation. She steps close to Raffe and runs her fingers down his glistening chest.”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall

“I looped one arm around her neck, pulled her close, and kissed her temple. I felt her sigh, and when she breathed her sadness out, I breathed it in.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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― Laurie Byro , La Dogaressa: & Other Poems

“American anthropologist Edward T. Hall once pointed out, time feels like an unstoppable conveyor belt, bringing us new tasks as fast as we can dispatch the old ones; and becoming “more productive” just seems to cause the belt to speed up.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“James looked up, looked right at me. He seemed surprised to see me standing there, though I didn’t know for the life of me why he should be. Was I not always his right-hand man, his lieutenant? Banquo or Benvolio or Oliver—little difference.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Everyone in the room was watching James—how could they not?—but I was the only one who really knew him, every inch.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“The Reverend Brook-Edward Bridges is the sort of man I cannot help but despise,” she rejoined sharply. “He believes the world exists to sustain his follies, and ask nothing of him in return. My brother was spoilt as a youth, and age has merely made him indolent. He sponges on my mother and my husband for the relief of his debts, and is foolish enough to believe that he might prevail upon an excellent woman to make his fortune in marriage. Yes, Jane, I am severe upon him—for he has disappointed me these fifteen years at least.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Genius of the Place

“He’d rolled toward me sometime in the night, and his head was tucked against my shoulder, breath racing down my arm every time he exhaled. The strange sudden thought that I didn’t want to move struck me, with the surprising lucidity of a sunbeam slanting right in my eyes. His warm drowsy weight in the bed beside me felt natural, comfortable, comme il faut.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Tal vez por eso Dios nos hizo niños, para empezar cerca del suelo; Él sabe que uno debe caerse muchas veces y sangrar mucho antes de aprender esa simple lección.”
― Stephen King, it

“He said, “If things were different, if I were me, and you were you … do you think you’d ever see me as someone you could…” He didn’t think Hugo was going to answer. He’d walk through the door without a word, leaving Wallace alone and feeling foolish. He didn’t. He said, “Yes.” And then he went inside.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“A car to a man is like shoes to a woman, you can never have enough.” Liam”
― Kat T. Masen, Dirty Bad Boys Box Set: Forbidden Romance Collection

“mezzanine”
― David M. Bresnahan, 911 First Responders at Ground Zero

“หนังสือเล่มหนึ่ง เมื่อเป็นของคนอ่าน มันก็ต้องเป็นอย่างที่คนอ่านมองเห็น ไม่เพียงครูภาษาไทยอย่างเธอที่ไม่อาจตีกรอบ แม้แต่คนแต่งก็เผด็จการให้คนอื่นคิดตามและมองเห็นอย่างที่ตัวเขาเองต้องการสื่อไม่ได้”
― ประชาคม ลุนาชัย, ร้านหนังสือที่มีแต่นิยายรัก

“That Night, the Car halts a dress for a steward in Law.”
― Petra Hermans, Voor een betere wereld

“I want to draw especial attention to the treatment of AI—artificial intelligence—in these narratives. Think of Ex Machina or Blade Runner. I spoke at TED two years in a row, and one year, there were back-to-back talks about whether or not AI was going to evolve out of control and “kill us all.” I realized that that scenario is just something I have never been afraid of. And at the same moment, I noticed that the people who are terrified of machine super-intelligence are almost exclusively white men. I don’t think anxiety about AI is really about AI at all. I think it’s certain white men’s displaced anxiety upon realizing that women and people of color have, and have always had, sentience, and are beginning to act on it on scales that they’re unprepared for. There’s a reason that AI is almost exclusively gendered as female, in fiction and in life. There’s a reason they’re almost exclusively in service positions, in fiction and in life. I’m not worried about how we’re going to treat AI some distant day, I’m worried about how we treat other humans, now, today, all over the world, far worse than anything that’s depicted in AI movies. It matters that still, the vast majority of science fiction narratives that appear in popular culture are imagined by, written by, directed by, and funded by white men who interpret the crumbling of their world as the crumbling of the world.”
― Monica Byrne, The Actual Star

“Please don’t let me mess this up. Please. I’ll just die. But then the tape grows taut and I’m not even all the way up his leg yet. I give it a tug with a grunt, trying not to make eye contact with the man’s lower body as I work with the tape. Then, to my total horror, the tape snaps and pings Blaze right in the area I was trying to avoid. He grunts and steps back, covering his crotch with both hands. A tear slides down his left cheek. This is so much worse than going up too high with the tape. So much worse. I stare at him dumbfounded for a few seconds before I find words. But instead of offering an apology, I hold up the two broken pieces of tape and frown at him. “You’re so big, you broke my measuring tape!”
― Laura Burton, The Terrible Personal Shopper

“Survivorship bias means this: people systematically overestimate their chances of success. Guard against it by frequently visiting the graves of once-promising projects, investments and careers. It is a sad walk, but one that should clear your”
― Rolf Dobelli, The Art of Thinking Clearly: Better Thinking, Better Decisions

“Amazons – even when one is exceptional – are a team, a tribe, a gang, and it is this which Buffy captured so perfectly: an ensemble of women fighting to save us all.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“Empathy is when the line between you and another blurs. Closeness is when your vision of your “self” makes room for someone else to be in there too. And a true friend is “another self.” A part of you.”
― Eric Barker, Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know about Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong

“The eyes are the groin of the head.”
― Dwight Schrute

“You can't truly hear
and remain untouched.
You can't truly think
and remain unaltered.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Anger at the loss of a fellow warrior – and revenge killing of the man responsible – motivates heroes throughout epic poetry.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“Whatever her reasons, she determines to try to use her death for someone else’s good – the defence of the Trojans. According to Pseudo-Apollodorus, Priam, the king of Troy, offers her absolution for her crime.28 The word he uses is kathartheisa, ‘to cleanse’, from which we derive the word ‘catharsis’.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“Some versions of the Iliad which he had available to him apparently concluded, ‘And so they buried Hector. And then came an Amazon, the daughter of great-hearted Ares, killer of men.’24 Another variant identifies the Amazon by name, and mentions her mother too: ‘And then came an Amazon, the daughter of Otrera, graceful Penthesilea.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“Not for the first time, we see that an accurate translation has been sacrificed in the pursuit of making women less alarming (and less impressive) in English than they were in Greek.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“I turn to go. I was so hopeful this morning, I had such stars in my eyes imagining how this was all going to go. God, what a jerk Peter is. Good riddance to him!”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“And if you challenged her on altering her name or questioned her
loyalty to African culture she would ask What has Africa done for me?”
― Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Manchester Happened

“The British didn’t give your culture a visa: leave it at home”
― Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Manchester Happened

“The haruspices think the more time it takes them to study the entrails, the more impressed we are at their divinations. They mistake our relief at the end of their study for awe.”
― Debra May Macleod, Brides of Rome

“He looks at me like he's waiting for something, and suddenly I'm afraid to give it.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“The brilliant trees burned through the heavy mist and he climbed them to pluck leaves of gold, cramming fistfuls inside his sweater, imagining the wealth that would be his.”
― Patti Smith, The Coral Sea

“In his heartlessness he had ignored nature, and how heartless nature was in return.”
― Patti Smith, The Coral Sea

“The beginning is the end. The beginning is when you decide how the finale will be. For some people, the ending is a mystery and the greatest discovery of all.”
― Rina Kent, Vicious Prince

“Like snow globes, you shake them up, and for a moment everything is upside down and glitter everywhere and it's just like magic—but then it all settles and goes back to where it's supposed to be. Things have a way of settling back.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“He had ignored nature and now turned to her for his salvation, and set about to make peace with her, bowing to her mysteries.”
― Patti Smith, The Coral Sea

“If they don't talk now, the scar will only harden over time, it will calcify, and then they'll be like strangers who never loved each other, which is the saddest thought of all.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“The difference between ‘I love you’ and ‘I’m in love with you’ was a bridgeless chasm.”
― Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight

“Here Dostoevsky draws what seems to him the moral of the revolutions of 1848, and applies it to the Russian situation... "Every society can accommodate only that degree of progress that it has developed and begun to understand. Why reach further, why reach for the stars in the sky? This can destroy everything because it can frighten everyone.”
― Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865

“One comfort is to be found in a God whose power is in His magnanimity as well as His wisdom. These two traits mean that His divine energies are spent not in precluding chaos but in reordering it, not in preventing suffering but in alchemizing it, not in disallowing error but in transmuting it into goodness.”
― Terryl Givens

“دأئما الروية صعبة بس مفيدة والحقيقة مؤلمة بس مغيرة”
― محمد طة

“ما تصدقة عن نفسك يصل الي الناس ويعاملونك بة”
― محمد طة

“A few days later, we waited anxiously in the living room for the estate attorney, Mrs. Redmond, to come by. As we sat on the couch, my bedroom door creaked open and a tangle of vines crept across the floor. I jumped up and shoved them back inside, closing the door”
― Kalynn Bayron, This Poison Heart

“اذا أردت أن تكون شخصا غير اعتيادي في المجتمع فعليك أن تتقبل نظرة المجتمع لك باعتبارك شخصا غريب الأطوار،مجنون،أحمق،مغرور،متهور وما الي ذلك من الالفاظ التي تحوي اتهاما لك هذة هي الضريبة التي عليك سدادها.”
― حسين ثابت

“ولكن، طالما فكّرت بهذا الحل، فهي مستعدة لتحمل النتائج، وهذا إن دل على شيء، فهو يدل على مدى تصميمها على الاحتفاظ بالمنزل، فالتضحيات الكبيرة تكون لأهداف كبيرة أيضاً.”
― دانيال ستيل, ‏٤٤ شارع تشارلز

“El hijo sobreprotegido crece débil, timorato, demandante, dependiente, inseguro, sin tolerancia a las frustraciones y tormentas de la vida, ignorando su propio potencial porque nunca le han permitido conocerlo y mucho menos utilizarlo; no le han dejado desarrollar sus músculos psicológicos, le han allanado demasiado el camino, le han facilitado demasiado la vida y con la sobre protección le han transmitido el mensaje implícito: «TÚ NO PUEDES, POR ESO LO HAGO YO POR TI».”
― Martha Alicia Chavez, Tu hijo, tu espejo (Nueva edición): Un libro para padres valientes

“Having brains will make you a living.

Having balls will make you a fortune.

Only a few will understand.”
― Mac Duke The Strategist

“As Carl Sagan put it, “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge”
― Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

“Elders,”
― Erin Hunter, Rising Storm

“Para cumplir con una misión de vida, que dé significado a la existencia, es preciso no solo talento y habilidad, sino algo más importante es la disciplina de perseverar. No falla la meta, no falla la inteligencia, no fallan las oportunidades… solo fallan los que no insisten lo suficiente.”
― Raimon Samsó, El Poder de la Disciplina: El Hábito que Cambiará tu Vida

“How fragile the craving, he thought, and how delicate it was. How easy it would be to snap it between his fingers, to crush it between his palms. How effortlessly the wanting turned into the franticness of taking, and how very, very easy it was to take.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“El mejor manual de la gramática del inglés en el mundo es el manual de Raymond Murphy, English Grammar in Use.”
― James Baldwin, Inglés para Principiantes con Robinson Crusoe: Aprender inglés – Un libro bilingüe

“His List plumes a purple progress in a smile I can see.”
― Petra Hermans

“She dances on the Table and bows a ballet for the Five.”
― Petra Hermans, Voor een betere wereld

“Το πεπρωμένο το αμμουδερό
το πεπρωμένο το ατιθάσευτο
εσύ υφαίνεις κι εγώ ακολουθώ”
― Μαρία Αλεξοπούλου, Το εύθραυστο νήμα του έρωτα

“இந்த உடல் எத்தனை பரிசுத்தமோ அத்தனைக்கு அசுத்தம் என்பதை தெலகராஜுவிடம் ஒரு மிருகம் போல மூச்சு இன்றி மாயீ கற்றுக் கொண்டாள்.”
― தஞ்சை ப்ரகாஷ், கரமுண்டார் வூடு | KARAMUNDAAR VOODU: நாவல் | NOVEL

“...self awareness its the foundational starter step toward clarity of social awareness. We are open windows outsiders look through...we will impact perceptions well as we pane and frame them mindfully. " ~ Lady Tracey Bond DoubleOHHSeven™ The Branding Bullionaire”
― Lady Tracey Bond DoubleOHHSeven™

“Αναδύσου έρωτα από το τέμενος,
σκίσε το πέπλο της αμφιβολίας.
Χρωμάτισε σαν ουράνιο τόξο
στο διάβα σου τα πάντα,
ακόμη και το πλακόστρωτο που πατώ.”
― Μαρία Αλεξοπούλου, Το εύθραυστο νήμα του έρωτα

“Llegar a los recuerdos lleva su tiempo, y mucho más si el dolor está presente.”
― Sandra Barneda, Un océano para llegar a ti

“Pocos presagian la muerte y muchos viven de espalda a ello, como si nunca fuera llamar a su puerta y a sacudirles el alma.”
― Sandra Barneda, Un océano para llegar a ti

“A veces no sabemos cómo desenterrar los secretos que un día decidimos dejar ahí.”
― Sandra Barneda, Un océano para llegar a ti

“wreck that had been his sanctuary growing up. Before he could announce himself she’d turned, her hair swinging softly around her face and brushing her jaw. “Are you going”
― Sarah Morgan, Suddenly Last Summer

“The curtains matched the bedcovers, which matched the cushions – always the sign of a diseased mind.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Symphony of Echoes

“Si bien es normal que los padres nos preocupemos en cierta medida por el bienestar de nuestros hijos, no lo es cuando esa preocupación llega a grados en los que, por ejemplo, no les permitimos salir por el miedo a que algo les pase, o no podemos dormir mientras están fuera de casa, o vivimos en una constante angustia por todas las cosas terribles que les podrían pasar.”
― Martha Alicia Chavez, Tu hijo, tu espejo (Nueva edición): Un libro para padres valientes

“escuelas, comida, ropa, etc., para sus hijos. Al mismo tiempo decía: «Me siento culpable de pensar eso, porque tengo la certeza de que sí quiero hacerlo, en verdad quiero mantenerlos, con todo mi corazón lo deseo, porque los quiero mucho».”
― Martha Alicia Chavez, Tu hijo, tu espejo (Nueva edición): Un libro para padres valientes

“The problem with being God-fearing is that in case of a problem we don't possess any bad habit to sacrifice in return of an urgent hearing of prayers.”
― Shahanshah Hafeez

“No excuses,” Miss Hardy said firmly. “It won’t take you any time to drive out there. I’ll whip up a strawberry shortcake while you’re gone.” “In that case,” Frank said, laughing, “we’ll leave right away.”
― Franklin W. Dixon, The Phantom Freighter

“Oh, doctors!” Inspector Slack looked contemptuous. “If you’re going to believe doctors. Take out all your teeth—that’s what they do nowadays—and then say they’re very sorry, but all the time it was appendicitis. Doctors!”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“What are you thinking about?’ I said, ‘The same thing you’re thinking about.’ We didn’t even need to say your name.” She frowns down into the red pool of her wine. “It was just a kiss, but God, it hurt like hell.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes us what we are.”
― Shahanshah Hafeez

“And then she fucking smiled at me, and it’s like somebody hit the button on a stopwatch and time restarted, flew forward. Now I’m racing into the weekend, eager to see her.”
― Becka Mack, Consider Me

“These past twelve days, I’ve wanted one of two things: to either get the girl or get over the girl. The former was preferable, but with each day that dragged on, I would’ve taken either just to get rid of the heavy cloud hanging over my head.”
― Becka Mack, Consider Me

“Witnessed men stopping the journies in despair, never knew those men, but the despair was well known.”
― Shahanshah Hafeez

“When we laugh at own misery. It becomes less miserable.”
― Shahanshah Hafeez

“That strange possessive pride washed over me again. Everyone in the room was watching James—how could they not?—but I was the only one who really knew him, every inch.”
― M. L. Rio

“Our true self is always lonely. The version which is surrounded by people is the 
version liked by them.”
― Shahanshah Hafeez

“But he’s already had you, and he still wants you. You like him, and he likes you. There’s no problem here, other than that you’re letting fear of the unknown dictate your life.”
― Becka Mack, Consider Me

“As people power emerged, we invented politicians. We’re not bright.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Symphony of Echoes

“시간은 광대한 우주의 바다에서 시각적 현존의 감각을 돕기 위해 마음이 창조한 환상이다. 모든 경험에 기초한 과거와 미래의 인식을 창조하는 뉴런이 없다면, 과거와 미래의 실재는 없다. 현재만 있다.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a Scientist Who Found Himself by Getting Lost

“Someone isn't afraid of losing always find a way to win.”
― Shahanshah Hafeez

“I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing - that it all started with a mouse”
― Walt Disney

“Then let’s get you your girl back, Mr. Beckett.”
― Becka Mack, Consider Me

“Yes.” It’s strange what a simple three-letter word can do, one spoken with so much certainty, the weight that lifts with the epiphany that comes with it. Yes, I want to choose Olivia, over and over again. I want to work for it, for us. I want to be better, not only for her, but for myself too.”
― Becka Mack, Consider Me

“I love the fuck out of you, Carter, but are you really that daft when it comes to relationships? Things don’t suddenly fall into place because you’ve decided you want her.”
― Becka Mack, Consider Me

“Then help me,” I beg. “I’m trying here. I hate feeling like this. I’ve decided what I want. Isn’t it supposed to be easy from here on out?”
― Becka Mack, Consider Me

“There’s a Toltec word – mitote. Means fog in the mind.’ ‘What?’ I frown at him. ‘It comes from all the stories we tell ourselves – like about the person we think we should be. You know, like when you’re a kid, it matters what your parents think of you; then as you get older, it’s your friends who matter, then society, until before you know it, you have this life designed purely to fit with everyone else’s expectations, which kind of works – except we lose track of who we really are, underneath. You have to get rid of all that. It fogs your mind. Stops you seeing clearly.’ I stare at him, because it’s exactly how it is. ‘You’re right.’ ‘It’s still there, Cassidy – the old you. Just swamped – by life and stuff that’s happened to you. I don’t know… A bit like a dragonfly larva at the bottom of a murky pond, if you can leave those muddy depths behind and burst through the surface, you’ll be free.”
― Debbie Howells, The Life You Left Behind

“Por un lado se tiene la certeza de conocer la verdad. Por otro está el reconocimiento de nuestra ignorancia y la duda perpetua de toda certeza. La religión, especialmente el monoteísmo, encuentra una profunda dificultad de aceptar el pensamiento del cambio, el pensamiento crítico. Eva recogió la manzana para llegar a saber. Pero ante el dios que quiere ser el Dios Único e indiscutible fue el primero de los pecados.”
― Carlo Rovelli, El nacimiento del pensamiento científico: Anaximandro de Mileto

“I don’t have a single clue what I’m doing right now, why I thought this might be the right way to deal with the way I’m feeling. No fucking shit Olivia didn’t trust me to change, to be different than I’ve been. This right here proves I’m the same guy fucking his problems away.”
― Becka Mack, Consider Me

“Oh right. It doesn’t matter what he looks like. He’s still an asshole.”
― Stasia Black, The Virgin and the Beast

“She’s moved on, on from whatever the hell this was, or whatever it wasn’t. Because it wasn’t ever anything, was it? Nothing more than undeniable chemistry and physical attraction, paired with some foolish notion that a relationship might be something I wanted, that Olivia and I might be good together.”
― Becka Mack, Consider Me

“So now I know. Hell is cowboy chic. Awesome.”
― Stasia Black, The Virgin and the Beast

“Her wide eyes lock on mine, cheeks blazing, hand hanging there in midair, holding on to a… A goddamn Oreo. Woman’s my fucking soul mate.”
― Becka Mack, Consider Me

“The crowd had broken into song, not in unison, but in a medley of rhythms and melodies. They sang in many Old World tongues, and clapped and drummed. They played on homemade instruments previously proscribed, and clicked their tongues and whistled. These were secret songs, learned from illegal sources, or composed and played in dark, hidden places. These were songs they had been prepared to die for.”
― Christine Aziz, The Olive Readers