“we hold our fate in our hands. We always have a choice. Don’t settle for less than the future that you dream of with”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
“I will wait for you, Vivienne. I don’t care how many centuries it takes before you’re ready, but I will wait for you.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
“You are who you choose to be. No matter how much light is shed upon you, if you still choose to remain in darkness, that’s your doing, not anyone else’s.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
“Pawn or queen, they’re just pieces to be yanked around by whoever is playing the game.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
“That’s because you’re doing all the talking. Frankly,”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
“Yes. Tonight’s the night, Sofia.” He”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
“No one ever said this marriage was going to be fair,”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
“It had been months since I was taken from The Shade.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
“It’s a controlling obsession. It accomplishes nothing.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
“I wanted to always be in control and yet it was so clear to me that my life—much more the lives of those I loved—was never meant to be manageable.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
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“Rum and Coke. No ice, please.” She nodded”
― quote from Chasing Merlin
“If we limit our sight to individual players, we'll never see the big picture. The issue is a systemic one, maintained by interconnected actors, all acting in their self-interest to further their goals. The trouble is not, or not always, the actors themselves, or their intrinsic motivations. Instead, it's the overarching goal of the entire system that's at fault: corporate profit above public health.”
― T. Colin Campbell, quote from Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
“Whenever I get dumped, I nail the door shut so that no one can come inside, get a towel and clip it around my neck so it's like a Superman cape, take off my shoes so I can slide across the room, and...get a fake mic, like a celery stick or a pen, and I play any record that features the vocalist Ronnie James Dio. And you can just pretend you're Dio, because on every album he does, he has minimum one, usually three, *EVIL WOMAN LOOK OUT!*- songs. And if you wanna point like Dio, it's a three-finger point. (heavy metal voice) 'The exit is that way. Evil LURKS! Evil lurks in twilight! Dances in the DARK! Evil woman! Just WALK AWAY!”
― Henry Rollins, quote from The Portable Henry Rollins
“We adapted to being at war, just as we had adapted to the chaos and upheaval of revolution. How amazing and yet tragic it is, I thought, the human instinct for”
― Shirin Ebadi, quote from Iran Awakening
“Women are interchangeable as sex objects; women are slightly less disposable as mothers. The only dignity and value women get is as mothers: it is a compromised dignity and a low value, but it is all that is offered to women as women. Having children is the best thing women can do to get respect and be assured a place. The fact that having children does not get women respect or a place is almost beside the point: poor women don’t get respect and live in dung heaps; black women don’t get respect and are jailed in decimated ghettos; just plain pregnant women don’t get respect and the place they have is a dangerous one—pregnancy is now considered a cause of battery (stress on the male, don’t you know): in perhaps 25 percent of families in which battery occurs, it is a pregnant woman who has been battered. In fact, having children may mean both increased violence and increased dependence; it may significantly worsen the economic circumstances of a woman or a family; it may hurt a woman’s health or jeopardize her in a host of other ways; but having children is the one social contribution credited to women—it is the bedrock of women’s social worth. Despite all the happy smiling public mommies, the private mommies have grim private recognitions. One perception is particularly chilling: without the children, I am not worth much. The recognition is actually more dramatic than that, much more chilling: without the children, I am not.”
― Andrea Dworkin, quote from Right Wing Women
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