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“I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing.”
— The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
“I’m homesick all the time, I just don’t know where home is. There’s this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it’s like chasing the moon—just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon.”
— Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon (via simply-quotes)
“Fearless heart, never tremble again:”
— Louise Glück, from The Mystery in “Poems 1962-2012″
“hope is rising in me, like sap in a tree. Blood in a wound.”
— The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
“There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes if I prepare enough for it, the worst won’t happen.”
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Anaïs Nin, Fire: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1937
“Suddenly I realized that if I stepped out of my body I would break into blossom.”
— James Wright, from The Branch Will Not Break; A Blessing.
“Mother, I have pasts inside me I did not bury properly. Some nights, your daughter tears herself apart yet heals in the morning.”
— Questions for Ada, ‘Confessions’ by Ijeoma Umebinyuo (via decreation)
I know the whole world prefers a woman who doesn’t know her power, but I’m sick of all that.
Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I’m the Earth. I won’t give up until the Earth gives up.”
— Alice Walker, “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker” 2013
“Don’t you dare, for one minute, believe that my kindness makes me anything but insurmountable. I did not unzip my chest to every kind of hurt, and stagger back, wounded and alive, just to hear you call me weak for trying.”
— Ashe Vernon (aka latenightcornerstore), from her poem, Softness, in Words Dance 16.
