Activism Quote by Paul Beatty

“And more than that, she just looked… tired. Like she’d battled the world and the world had won.”

— Sara Shepard

“She inhales slow and long. The tremors have stopped. She is still and solid and ready, a thing carved for a purpose.”

— Gin Phillips

“Abby was beginning to feel like everything was too much. She was beginning to feel like nothing she did made any difference.”

— Grady Hendrix

“But dammit, she was tired. Tired of doing what was expected, tired of feeling like she was missing something.”

— Jill Shalvis

“Her body was heavy and tired, and she thought, I can't carry myself another step into this life.”

— Josephine Humphreys

“Her eyes sparkle with a rising dampness. “I’ve seemed to overstep myself, Samuel.”

— Nathan Reese Maher

“So many things had happened that she never would have dreamed could take place, and yet here she was still breathing and eating food…

— Val Brelinski

“Her life was filled with contrast, an inexplicable mystery. She always left you breathless, craving a little bit more.”

— Nikki Rowe

“She become moody and depressed. She started wearing black and listening to the Smiths and reading Camus in the original whatever. Her eyes became…

— Lev Grossman

“up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She gave a soft whine and tilted her head to the side. She was ugly. Little. Sick. And Tox was totally in love with…

— Lila Ashe

“when she was finally done, she was close to tears and she hated herself more. Dragging oxygen into her sob-clogged throat, she turned to…

— Marian Tee