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You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall.

You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall.

“You underestimate your own power so you don't have to blame yourself for treating other people badly.”

“The acclaim also felt like part of the performance itself, the best part, and the most pure expression of what I was trying to do, which was to make myself into this kind of person: someone worthy of praise, worthy of love.”

“I had the sense that something in my life had ended, my image of myself as a whole or normal person maybe.”

“You don’t even know what Ying-Na is doing. Everything you hear is a rumor. For all you know, she could be a neurosurgeon married to a billionare t

“You don’t even know what Ying-Na is doing. Everything you hear is a rumor. For all you know, she could be a neurosurgeon married to a billionare tech god.” Or maybe she’s struggling but happy. I kept this thought to myself since my mom wouldn’t understand the value of that life.

My parents may have done versions of what he was implying, but not in the same tone.

New Year's Resolution: don't request contemporary

New Year's Resolution: don't request contemporary books unless I'm literally desperate to read them immediately

“No man can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finall

“No man can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

Uncle Mark should’ve just bought his camera and shot his stupid movie after the first day. Unfortunately, he never shot anything ever again.

But my

Uncle Mark should’ve just bought his camera and shot his stupid movie after the first day. Unfortunately, he never shot anything ever again.

But my father did.

"ANOTHER THING ABOUT THE RULES

They weren't meant to be broken.
They were meant for the broken

to follow."

“It's all about perspective, isn't it? That's why Aunt Empra loved time travel so much. She always said the past helped her make sense of the prese

“It's all about perspective, isn't it? That's why Aunt Empra loved time travel so much. She always said the past helped her make sense of the present...sometimes even the future, too. I didn't understand what she meant until I started traveling. When you witness the breadth of history, you understand how small you are. And yet at the same time you realize how much your life matters...how much you shape the people around you.”

“my god
is not as unreachable as
they'd like you to think
my god is beating inside us infinitely”

“my god
is not as unreachable as
they'd like you to think
my god is beating inside us infinitely”

"I did nothing wrong."

♔ A fairly interesting narrator
♔ Slice-of-life nature and readability
♔ Feminism, primarily black characters, and important conversations

♚ A lackluster love triangle involving cheating
♚ Excusal of said cheating
♚ Barely any solid character progression
♚ just... nothing especially interesting.

If you’re not careful, you can spend your whole life looking for what you’ve lost.

If you’re not careful, you can spend your whole life looking for what you’ve lost.

“I choose this life,” the prostitute says to the social worker. “I do. Please put your energy into helping girls who aren’t here by choice.” She is so right. She is murdered anyway.