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“Occasionally, when Ammu listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch, to a better, happier place. On days like this, there was something restless and untamed about her. As though she had temporarily set aside the morality of motherhood and divorceehood. Even her walk changed from a safe mother-walk to another wilder sort of walk. She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank with her little plastic transistor shaped like a tangerine. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims. What was it that gave Ammu this Unsafe Edge? This air of unpredictability? It was what she had battling inside her. An unmixable mix. The infinite tenderness of motherhood and the reckless rage of a suicide bomber.”

— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"With every good film I see, I feel reborn."

“I dream about you and hope that you are happy.”

“I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly.”

― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“By the way thanks for the attack. I relish combat”

"All eyes on you now, what you gonna do?"

"My thinking is my fighting."

— Virginia Woolf, 1940

"Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katharine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their minds. They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word undone. These women could be undone; or not. They seemed to be able choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then.” — Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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