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41 " was as though the store had been left behind to rot among the ashes of the book resurgence. It didn’t make sense. The store had the right vibe and the right location and somehow it was still floundering. Still sinking under the weight of its inventory. "
― Aminah Mae Safi , This Is All Your Fault
42 " The world was an unholy and random dumpster fire, so stick it to the man as much as you can. "
43 " Hell, courtesy of his eighteenth birthday, his petty criminal record had been wiped clean. Nobody in Chicago had even considered trying a fourteen-year-old white boy with curly blond hair as an adult for a string of grocery and convenience store beer thefts. He was just a boy to them, being a boy. "
44 " I must find humor, even in the darkest of situations. "
― Aminah Mae Safi , Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix
45 " To laugh at the difficulties of life is no mean feat. "
46 " I thought the Templars took great pride in not knowing how to read?’John frowns. ‘The knights do. But the chaplains and the servants have to know how. You cannot manage so much money across an empire, nor can you manage prayers and rites, without someone being literate, no matter what pride you take in ignorance. "
47 " This was not the Little Miss Sunshine they were accustomed to working with, and Imogen could understand how this would freeze even the least adult of adults that Imogen had ever known. But Jo must have hit her limits when she caught sight of a girl sobbing maniacally in a room and throwing dollar "
48 " don’t know. I guess I always thought you had this perfect life with your perfect social media presence and your perfect hair and your perfect attitude and your perfect happiness and your perfect ability to make friends. You never seemed human. And it turns out you’re just as capable of being cracked as the rest of us. "
49 " Actually, not smoke, no. They’ve gone up in Air Jordans and a fistfight "
50 " But that’s the problem with creeps. It’s always on the victims to expose them and the victims to bear the brunt of what people believe. The vulnerable risk everything. The powerful can just point at everything that they have amassed, as though that’s an argument against potential injustice and misbehavior. "
51 " It's better to screw up on your own terms than to screw up on somebody else's. It's better to have something you now is yours rather than what everyone tells you that you should want. "
― Aminah Mae Safi , Tell Me How You Really Feel
52 " It's better to screw up on your own terms than to screw up on somebody else's. It's better to have something you know is yours rather than what everyone tells you that you should want. "
53 " And Sana couldn’t have told you what happened after that, because her lips were on Rachel Recht’s and she just melted into the moment because the story finally belonged to her and Rachel and nobody else. "