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21 " They’ll cry when you leave and buy you a Costco cake with your name on it and then forget about you ten minutes later when they replace you with someone younger and fresher and cheaper. "
― Janelle Brown , Watch Me Disappear
22 " There is no one path in life that is set before you, I’m starting to realize; no one is making your decisions for you. "
― Janelle Brown , Pretty Things
23 " Sex—it can be about love, yes. And it’s wonderful when it’s that, and God, baby, I hope that’s what you’ve found. But it’s also a tool. Men use it to prove a point to themselves, about their power to take what they want. You’re just the first rung on the ladder of their world domination. And when that’s the kind of sex you’re having—which is most of the time—you got to make sure that you’re using it as a tool, too. Don’t let yourself be used up by them, all the time believing it’s some kind of equal relationship. Make sure you’re getting just as much out of it as they are. "
24 " Maybe this is why they say love is blind: Who you want people to be makes you blind to who they really are. "
25 " Anything you do in fury’s service feels justifiable; no matter how petty, how small, how nasty or cruel. "
26 " Only someone fearful of his own ordinariness would buy, so unquestioningly, someone else's extraordinariness. Maybe this is why they say love is blind. Who you want people to be makes you blind to who they really are. "
27 " You don’t realize how much you’ll miss the asphyxiating intimacy of early parenthood until you can finally breathe again. "
28 " Take two people with a mutual willingness to connect, convince them to expose their innermost thoughts, and presto: true love. "
29 " Even if when I met you I had not happened to like you, I should still have been bound to change my attitude, because when you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don’t mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met & spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to show any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel that I ought to. —LETTER FROM GEORGE ORWELL TO STEPHEN SPENDER, APRIL 15, 1938 "
30 " There are so many varieties of love - The Menu does not have just one flavor - and I see no reason why this can't be one of them. love can be anything you choose to wrap around the word, as long as the two people involved agree upon terms. "
31 " I don't really do social media. When you're documenting everything you do, you stop living life for yourself and start living it as a performance for others. You're never in the actual moment, just the response to the moment. "
32 " They say DNA is destiny. And probably this is true for those with gift coded in their genes: say, a rare beauty or intelligence, the ability to run a four minute mile or dunk a basketball, or perhaps just innate cunning or insatiable drive. But for the rest of the world, those born without some obvious greatness, it's not your DNA that will get you ahead; it's the life you were born into. The opportunities you were (or weren't) handed on a silver platter. It's your circumstances. "
33 " and that, in fact, for most people not born into privilege, the playing field is a steep incline and you are at the bottom with boulders tied to your ankles. "
34 " Isn’t there more than this? Have I forgotten what it feels like to be in the moment? Who is watching me and do they honestly care about me at all? "
35 " Every great dream begins with a dreamer”—Helen Keller. "
36 " Caption-and-comment culture in all its brevity leaves out the middle ground, where most of life is found. "
37 " Covet this life, for it is the best life, and we are #blessed. "
38 " doubt it. I am a category 5 hurricane coming her way, and she has no clue. "
39 " It’s easiest to judge from a distance. That’s why the Internet has turned us all into armchair critics, experts at the cold dissection of gesture and syllable, sneering self-righteously from the safety of our screens. There, we can feel good about ourselves, validated that our flaws aren’t as bad as theirs, unchallenged in our superiority. Moral high ground is a pleasant place to perch, even if the view turns out to be rather limited in scope. "
40 " The ability to convincingly perform authenticity is perhaps the most necessary skill set for my generation. "