“I have so little. To a beggar, even scraps become a feast.”
― Will Wight, quote from Unsouled
“The son of a cripple might be a cripple, but the son of tigers won’t be a dog.”
― Will Wight, quote from Unsouled
“Only storms turn fish into dragons,”
― Will Wight, quote from Unsouled
“The very idea beggared his imagination, but that only meant his imagination was too limited.”
― Will Wight, quote from Unsouled
“The native calls the baobab 'the devil tree' because he claims that the devil, getting tangled in its branches, punished by the tree by reversing it. To the native, the roots are branches now, and the branches are roots. To ensure that there would be no more baobabs, the devil destroyed all the young ones.”
― Jerzy Kosiński, quote from The Devil Tree
“The dark night settled around her and the sudden silence hit her like a physical blow. For a moment she stood still.”
― Rachel Abbott, quote from Sleep Tight
“Just because it's complicated, doesn't mean there isn't a solution.”
― Elle Cosimano, quote from Nearly Gone
“Given the choice between one lifetime spent with you or a thousand without, I will always choose you.” I”
― Danielle L. Jensen, quote from Warrior Witch
“It baffles me when I see people saying, ‘I don’t focus on racism. I focus on sexism.’ It leaves me saddened when I hear people saying, ‘You’re OK, but you’re not.’ It makes people, in my opinion, guilty of the same crimes of thoughtlessness that lead to these problems […] Because that person on the bus being harassed is still being harassed whether she’s being harassed for being religious or for being an atheist or being black or being a woman or because of her clothing or because of her body-language or because of her appearance or because of her handbag or because of her accent. That’s all the same problem. It’s not recognizing the basic humanity of a person […] That’s the problem.”
― Laura Bates, quote from Everyday Sexism
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