Good Words from Good Books

There are so many good books out there, filled with even more good words. Here is my documentation of just a few of my absolute favorites. Enjoy.

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I'll Tell You in Person (essays)

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It's hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you're going to float the fuck away.

Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay

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We are constantly faced by this uncomfortable balance between brilliance and bad behavior.

Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay

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To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance, and women writers can't fix that ignorance no matter what kind of books we write or how those books are marketed.

Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay

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Change requires intent and effort. It really is that simple.

Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay

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It makes perfect sense that many of us obsess over our bodies. There is nothing more inescapable.

Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay

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We read to find life, in all it's possibilities. The relevant question isn't 'Is this a potential friend for me?' but 'Is this character alive?'

Claire Messud on her book, The Woman Upstairs (via Bad Feminist)

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They require a diagnosis for her unlikability in order to tolerate her

Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay

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I have a PhD I damn well earned, and I worry I am not good enough. It's insane, irrational, and exhausting. Frankly, it's depressing.

Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay

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If I close my book to talk to you, you should feel very special.

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That seemed fair to me, as if fairness were a measure the universe cared anything about.

The Girls, Emma Cline

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You wanted things and you couldn't help it, because there was only your life, only yourself to wake up with, and how could you ever tell yourself what you wanted was wrong?

The Girls, Emma Cline

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That was our mistake, I think. One of many mistakes. To believe that boys were acting with a logic that we could someday understand.

The Girls, Emma Cline

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Part of me did feel all right, or I was confusing familiarity with happiness. Because that was there even when love wasn't - the net of family, the purity of habit and home.

The Girls, Emma Cline

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Current book: The Girls

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That was the morning I committed the first sin of love, which was to confuse beauty and a good sound track with knowledge.

Sweetbitter, Stephanie Danler