“Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.”

“Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.”

“The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.”

“We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.”

“Even prisoners can escape if they have books.”

“When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.”

“The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body and flee earth with its constan...”

“... the effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a clear, unimpeded communion with the sacred is consonant with sp...”

“I'm a queen with or without a king. Chasing anything is beneath me. Until you're ready to put away childish things and be my man, my king, someone I can trust to shepard my soul to the Almighty I h...”

“It's amazing what flipping a grown man over her shoulder does for a girl.”

“Who runs the world? Girls.”

“This oath is the oath we all swear. Not to a god, or a master, or to the Ludu Achillea...but to our sisters who stand here with us. Our sisters. This is the oath that binds us all, one to one, all ...”