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“How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?”

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Jandy Nelson is an American writer known for her young adult literature, which often delves into the emotional and identity struggles of adolescence, resonating with readers across generations. more

“I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.”

“Look, hasn't my body already felt like the body of a flower?”

Looks Body Felt Flower

Book:New and Selected Poems, Volume One

Source: New and Selected Poems, Volume One

“The young are not afraid of telling the truth.”

Young Telling The Truth Not Afraid

Book:Anne Frank: the diary of Anne Frank; excerpts from Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl

Source: Anne Frank: the diary of Anne Frank; excerpts from Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl

“Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.”

Assuming

Author:Anne Frank

“One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.”

Ifs Modest

Book:The diary of a young girl

Source: The diary of a young girl

“I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.”

Way Firsts Wells Feelings Hurt Pay Deeds Dunces Scolding

Author:Anne Frank

“I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.”

Ifs Inspirational Children Wonder Succeed

Book:The diary of a young girl

Source: The diary of a young girl

“Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.”

Way Want Different Feelings Fall Wish Stupid Behave

Book:The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition

Source: The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition

“I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.”

Want Trying Laughing Trouble Please

Book:The diary of a young girl

Source: The diary of a young girl

“The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.”

Two Community Issues Gay Hot These Days Abortion Buttons Defining Evangelical

Author:Tony Campolo

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