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“...we're wedged tight into the accident of our moment in history.”

Book:Clever Girl

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“of course there are a certain number of men who pretend to admire your clever women - men who are in favour of the emancipation of the sex, the giving of women votes and the like - but as a rule you will find that these men are not clever men, and that although they pretend to ability they are really lacking in sense and are transcendent only in weakness and foolishness.”

Equality Suffrage Clever Girl Votes

Author:Anonymous

“Arcana Dawson, envious of Stocking’s life of peace and love, and, Ally Stocking, who was jealous of the Dawson’s coins that jangled in their suits”

Family Drama Allystocking Arcanadawson

Book:Carter’s Kids & the Lovesick Murderer

Source: Carter’s Kids & the Lovesick Murderer

“I'm an extrovert, I'll talk to anyone and anything...that is what you said that word meant, right?”

Stupid Silly Loud Extrovert Allystocking

Book:Carter’s Kids & the Lovesick Murderer

Source: Carter’s Kids & the Lovesick Murderer

“I sometimes have deep conversations with Woody - you know, my pet tree?”

Crazy Insane Outcast Woody Weirdo Allystocking Pet Tree

Book:Carter’s Kids & the Lovesick Murderer

Source: Carter’s Kids & the Lovesick Murderer

“Be selfish with your speeches; be generous with your listening.”

Inspirational Philosophy Quotes Debasish Mridha Debasish Mridha Md Listen Buddha Oscar Wilde Gandhi Miraboli Tagore Be Generous Be Selfish

Author:Debasish Mridha

“Someone walking toward you is such a simple, happy-to-be-alive thing.”

Deb Caletti The Nature Of Jade

Book:The Nature of Jade

Source: The Nature of Jade

“Fate's got a fucking sick sense of humor. Fate is a shape-shifter. It's the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think its one thing, but then its another.”

Quote Stay Deb Caletti

Book:Stay

Source: Stay

“I will say it again and again; forgiving others will set you free.”

Faith Forgiveness Gospel Native America

Book:Rez Ramblings: Living on the Pine Ridge as 21st Century as an "Injun"

Source: Rez Ramblings: Living on the Pine Ridge as 21st Century as an "Injun"

“Don't you wish you could live inside a book sometimes?" "All the time.”

Book Reading Books Deb Caletti The Secrets She Keeps

Book:The Secrets She Keeps

Source: The Secrets She Keeps

“All right. Couldn't you just lay your head right down on those words and rest? I wanted those words for my own. No matter how much things change or how time has passed, every single earthly creature pursued the promise of all right, and I was no different. We sought it out in the shelter of caves and underground hollows and in successful husbands and suburban neighborhoods with gates. We fought for it, and manipulated others to get it, and tried to buy it in our organic food and cars with every safety feature and tried to fake it with tough exteriors, and camouflage, and false hopes. We could want a sense of shelter, so badly that we could lose air until the panic of not having it was over, or we could ditch our lives in an instant. The desire for all right was perhaps the only thing we all-every human, every animal- truly had in common, even though the relentless drive for it could make us both stand against one another and seek out one another's warm and flawed company.”

Okay Deb Caletti The Secrets She Keeps All Right Okayness

Book:The Secrets She Keeps

Source: The Secrets She Keeps

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