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Because we trusted nothing, we endeavored to protect ourselves, boys becoming misogynistic and violent, girls turning duplicitous, all of us hopeless. — Jesmyn Ward

Someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything, so do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two. — Brandon Boyd

Did every step feel like the running leap a bird takes before flight? — Jesmyn Ward

Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language. — Jesmyn Ward

There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private. — Jesmyn Ward

In every one of the Greeks' mythology tales, there is this: a man chasing a woman, or a woman chasing a man. There is never a meeting in the middle. — Jesmyn Ward

When I look back on my reading habits when I was really young, I was really drawn to stories about strong girls who in some ways are outsiders. — Jesmyn Ward

Unless you have to, never fight a battle you now you're going to lose. — Patrick W. Carr

I wanted to be my own heroine. — Jesmyn Ward

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South. — Jesmyn Ward

Love don't just go away like that, Cille," Sandman said.
"It do. — Jesmyn Ward

I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing. — John Lyly

Another term for balloon is bad breath holder. — Demetri Martin

While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love about the South. — Jesmyn Ward

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal. — Jesmyn Ward

You look down when you talk to a headstone! When you talk to a live person, you look up!
I'm still alive! So treat me like it!
Look at me! — Kazuya Minekura

The limit of a person's will, at least in one respect, is the limit of that person's ability to believe. — David Kane

nor do I tell her that in my mind the line between Harry Potter and real life is blurry, if not non-existent. — Tarryn Fisher

What's a friend for if not to face almost certain death with, eh? — Katie MacAlister

Replace ropes with bullets. Hound dogs with German shepherds. A gray uniform with a bulletproof vest. Nothing is new. — Jesmyn Ward

Would a human egg let itself be seen? — Jesmyn Ward

Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young. — Burt Ward

I will not let him see until none of us have any choices about what can be seen, what can be avoided, what is blind, and what will turn us to stone. — Jesmyn Ward

But I am not that eloquent, so I shut my mouth and smile. — Jesmyn Ward

And I get up because it is the only thing I can do. — Jesmyn Ward

Always bring your "A" game and god will take care of the rest. — Jason Black

The first method is to think across the traditional boundaries of your marketplace to alternatives, not just competitors. — Brian Halligan

I burn, and I hope. — Jesmyn Ward

When people ask me about my hometown, I tell them it was called after a wolf before it was partially tamed and settled. — Jesmyn Ward

To give life...is to know what's worth fighting for. And what's love. — Jesmyn Ward