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#1

“It’s not fair on your mind to compare your lowest moments to another person’s highlight reel.”
― Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

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#2

“The beauty standards of our society are racist, fatphobic, ageist, and, quite frankly, confusing.”
― Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

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#3

“Is it true that human beings are fundamentally cruel? Is the experience of cruelty the only thing we share as a species? Is the dignity that we cling to nothing but self-delusion, masking from ourselves the single truth: that each one of us is capable of being reduced to an insect, a ravening beast, a lump of meat? To be degraded, slaughtered - is this the essential of humankind, one which history has confirmed as inevitable?”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

tags: human-acts

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#4

“Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind when all else is abraded. The world darkens, like electric bulbs going out one by one. I am aware that I am not a safe person.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

tags: healing, memory, pain, time, trauma, wounds

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#5

“Glass is transparent, right? And fragile. That's the fundamental nature of glass. And that's why objects that are made of glass have to be handled with care. After all, if they end up smashed or cracked or chipped, then they're good for nothing, right, you just have to chuck them away.
Before, we used to have a kind of glass that couldn't be broken. A truth so hard and clear it might as well have been made of glass. So when you think about it, it was only when we were shattered that we proved we had souls. That what we really were was humans made of glass.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

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#6

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: chapter-xxiii

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#7

“Reader, I married him.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#8

“Feelings erode in here. Memories wear off. All that’s left are facts without the emotion that once accompanied them. I don’t cry in this place. There isn’t room enough for the heart to move. There are no winds to rustle it. Silence here is not the absence of sound, but the presence of a dense, unshakable stillness. Like dark matter in space, silence here is a living force that slides into all corners and seams. I have come to depend on it.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

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#9

“I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was what it meant to be exiled and disinherited - to straddle closed borders, never whole anywhere. To remain in one place meant tearing one's limbs from another.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

tags: displacement, exhile, refugee-experience

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#10

“They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us to barricade our doors
and hide our children.
Their aim is to make us fear life itself!
They want us to hate.
They want us to hate 'the other'.
They want us to practice aggression
and perfect antagonism.
Their aim is to divide us all!
They want us to be inhuman.
They want us to throw out our kindness.
They want us to bury our love
and burn our hope.
Their aim is to take all our light!
They think their bricked walls
will separate us.
They think their damned bombs
will defeat us.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that my soul and your soul are old friends.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that when they cut you I bleed.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that we will never be afraid,
we will never hate
and we will never be silent
for life is ours!”
― Kamand Kojouri

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#11

“I clear my throat. "There are still more patients--"
"Your life is just as important as theirs," he interrupts, his voice leaving no room for negotiation. "Your. Life. Is. Just. As. Important.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

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#12

“You asked me if you could see colours again, Salama. If we deserve to see them. I think we do. I think you can. There's too little of it in death. In pain. But that's not the only thing in the world. That's not all that Syria has. Syria was once the center of the world. Inventions and discoveries were made here; they built the world. Our history is in the Al-Zahrawi Palace, in our mosques, in our earth”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

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#13

“There are enough people hurting you,” he whispers. “Don’t be one of them.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

tags: crying-my-heart-out

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#14

“Fear is a cruel thing. The way it distorts thoughts, transforming them from molehills into mountains.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

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#15

“We are stripped from our choices, so we latch onto what will ensure our survival.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

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