falling; falling deeper and deeper

Life is full of scary things. The trick is not to let your fears get in the way of your living. Whatever else you do, don't settle for a life half-lived. *note: all the quotes on this blog are from books that I am currently reading/already read. Therefore, things take a little longer to update.

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my anxious mind needs to write that down

(I love this book and its characters so much oh my god, please, I don’t want it to end already 😭😭)

[kyais]

It is no bravery to pretend life is cheap to you. It is no bravery to push out all the things that make it worthwhile.

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Notes on an Execution: A Novel

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Notes on an Execution: A Novel

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“Cooperation, when it’s objective is personal gain, should never be confused with solidarity.”

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

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“‘There is a better world,’ a man said. “But it’s more expensive.”

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

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“You think you know hardship, but men have a gift for finding new ways to make women suffer.”

-The Familiar, Leigh Bardugo

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A golden cage is still a cage.

Madeline Miller, Circe

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Do not let what you gained this day be so easily lost.

Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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Remember that kind of wanting? That kind that’s just for yourself? And you don’t even have to feel guilty about it? You wouldn’t know you should.

Megan Abott

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Can you love someone you don’t remember? Can you love someone you don’t know?

Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees

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Explaining is not excusing; understanding is not forgiving.

Christopher Browning

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How you choose to die can reflect how you chose to live.

Michelle Hodkin

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The scars you can’t see are the ones that hurt the most.

Michelle Hodkin

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Things got bad there for a second, I know, darling. But there's still a life to be lived.

Molly Prentiss, Tuesday Nights in 1980

[kyais]

There was a place for him on this earth, he knew then. A place where learning was paramount and strange viewpoints were encouraged; a place where one's worth was measured by their ideas rather than height (or ear size); a place where parents didn't putter and pout and drink until one of them hit the other one, where showers and meals were communal, where brunette women wore their hair short, where good boys were made into to great men, where golden lights lit pathways to the truth, and where acceptance happened before you even arrived...and that place was college.

Molly Prentiss, Tuesday Nights in 1980

[kyais]

Words have power. And I may be privileged and have a higher IQ than any of our former teachers, but when people look at me? They see a black, male teenager. And there is nothing quite as frightening to some folks as an angry young black man.

Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer