Babette knew better than to let a little pain hold her back. She knew that joy and sorrow walked side by side. She knew that being alive meant risking one for the other .
What You Wish For by Katherine Center
Quotes
The last thing she needed was to fall in love with her prison.
Court of Bitter Thorn by Kay L Moody
Stockholm
My shriek is a dagger that blots out the sun — I stand up. My wings and my scream swallow up the sky.
Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin
Rage
“Let me tell you something, Yola. Life is not some box of chocolates like they say in that movie. Life is a big piece of sugarcane.”
“Sugarcane?”
One Year Of Ugly by Caroline Mackenzie
“Yes, a maldito sugarcane! You have to bite down hard and suck as much sweetness out of it as you can. Don’t be afraid to sink your teeth in, chama, it’s the only way you’ll ever draw out the sugar.”
Sugarcane
I tried not to keep replaying the harshness of what I’d said to him, cursing my inability to thwart all those genetically wired impulses that allow pop culture to accurately peg Latin women as “feisty,” “fiery,” and “mothafuckin’ crazy as shit.”
One Year of Ugly by Caroline Mackenzie
Embracing the stereotypes
Like most men, he’d liked her passion when he was the cause of it, but her own passion, passion that had nothing to do with him, was dismissed as foolishness.
White Ivy by Susie Yang
… men 😐
If Petrea was a sweltering bonfire, then Camilline was the steady, comfortable glow of its embers after a long night.
Marilia, The Warlord by Morgan Cole
Fiery love
It reminds me of my mother once saying that you can’t tell men about your unfixable problems, because they’ll want to fix them and not being able to do so fries their wiring.
You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Google
Fixing
“I’m not rich, Lena, and I can’t help that I’m white. You don’t get to blame me for something I can’t control.”
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I’m Not Dying With You Tonight by Gilly Segal and Kimberley Jones
Why not, Becky? You people blame me for being born black every single day!”
Black and white
…but the fact that people only want to support Rossum when it’s convenient? That’s legit. Oh, sure, let’s canvass . . . when we have time. Resist white supremacy— as long as it doesn’t interfere with our super chill weekend. I’m not saying I’m perfect. I’m as guilty as anyone. But at least I’m trying.
Yes No Maybe So by Aisha Saeed & Becky Albertelli
