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"The magic was not a gift; it was a debt, and the interest was paid in the currency of one's own soul."
โ€” The Familiarby Leigh Bardugo
"Power is a mirror. It shows you exactly what you fear most about yourself."
โ€” The Familiarby Leigh Bardugo
"In this city of gilded cages and suffocating expectations, to be small was a safety, but to be remarkable was a death sentence."
โ€” The Familiarby Leigh Bardugo
"We are all merely actors playing parts written by men who never bothered to learn our names."
โ€” The Familiarby Leigh Bardugo
"You do not find your purpose. You survive long enough for it to find you, and pray that you are strong enough to endure the weight of it."
โ€” The Familiarby Leigh Bardugo
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."
โ€” Song of Solomonby Toni Morrison
"The fathers may soar / And the children may know their names."
โ€” Song of Solomonby Toni Morrison
"You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."
โ€” Song of Solomonby Toni Morrison
"Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."
โ€” Song of Solomonby Toni Morrison
"Names that had a meaning. No wonder Pilate put hers in her ear. When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is written down, it will die with you."
โ€” Song of Solomonby Toni Morrison
"Itโ€™s not about living longer. Itโ€™s about living right."
โ€” Song of Solomonby Toni Morrison
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."
โ€” Communist Manifestoby Karl Marx
"The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part."
โ€” Communist Manifestoby Karl Marx
"What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable."
โ€” Communist Manifestoby Karl Marx
"In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."
โ€” Communist Manifestoby Karl Marx
"The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property."
โ€” Communist Manifestoby Karl Marx
"The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!"
โ€” Communist Manifestoby Karl Marx
"I am a pawn in a game I don't understand, and the only way to win is to change the board."
โ€” Prodigyby Marie Lu
"The truth is a terrifying thing, but itโ€™s the only thing that can set us free."
โ€” Prodigyby Marie Lu
"We are two sides of the same coin, June. You were made to serve the Republic, and I was made to burn it down."
โ€” Prodigyby Marie Lu