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    Kay O'Neill
    “You feel like you've lost your path. It's natural to be sad. It's alright to let those feelings wash over you, and give them time to soak into the earth. That's when things start to grow again.”
    ― Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry
    tags: grief
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    R.F. Kuang
    “He went back to his first morning in Oxford: climbing a sunny hill with Ramy, picnic basket in hand. Elderflower cordial. Warm brioche, sharp cheese, a chocolate tart for dessert. The air smelled like a promise, all of Oxford shone like an illumination, and he was falling in love.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, Babel
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    Gabrielle Zevin
    “There are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.”
    ― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
    tags: death, ghost, ghosts, haunting, life, memory, morbid, morose, pain
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    Gabrielle Zevin
    “And what is love, in the end?" Alabaster said. "Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else's journey through life?”
    ― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
    tags: journey-through-life, what-is-love
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: amy-march, jo-march, longing, lost-love, love, spoil, teddy-lawrence, unrequited-love, waste-of-life
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    R.F. Kuang
    “So, you see, translators do not so much deliver a message as the rewrite the original. And herein lies the difficulty - rewriting is still writing, and writing always reflects the authors ideology and biases.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, Babel
    tags: translation, writing
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    M.L. Rio
    “For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: words
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    M.L. Rio
    “How could we explain that standing on a stage and speaking someone else's words as if they are your own is less an act of bravery than a desperate lunge at mutual understanding?”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: acting
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    Fern Brady
    “I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story.”
    ― Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
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    Madeline Miller
    “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    “What good is a coherent narrative if people don’t want to hear it? Because trauma won’t leave you alone until you feel safe, and safety is not something that an individual can summon on their own. Safety is not a gun. Safety is being able to trust that those around you WANT to protect you from harm. But if those around you don’t believe you are “like them,” then they will focus on the discomfort you make them feel, and that discomfort is not a safe space.”
    ― Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
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    Gabrielle Zevin
    “But it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.”
    ― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
    tags: giftedness, loving
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    Audre Lorde
    “To go to bed and to wake up again day afte day besides a woman, to lie in bed with our arms around each other and drift in and out of sleep, to be with each other not as a quick stolen pleasure, nor as a wild treat but like sunlight, day after day in the regualr course of our lives. I was discovering all the ways that love creeps into life when two selves exist closely, when two women meet.”
    ― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
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    Thomas Merton
    “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”
    ― Thomas Merton, Love and Living
    tags: connection, destiny, fate, life, love, meaning
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    A.A. Milne
    “How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
    ― A.A. Milne, The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: friendship, humor, love
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    Samantha Shannon
    “ I love you as the rain loves the earth. As the mountain loves the sky. I will love you when the star returns, and when the black waters swallow the world.”
    ― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night
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    Kay O'Neill
    “Perhaps passion takes many forms. Perhaps it becomes quiet and tired, and needs time to rest.”
    ― Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry
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    Mark Twain
    “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Suzanne Collins
    “With that, she condemns me to life.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping
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    “Because I know how that dog-eared page persists and insists you return to it. I know how the brain and the heart and the spirit fight daily to stay in the book and not write themselves out of the story. I know. I know. I know.”
    ― Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
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    “I thought about the way my mind wanders, how I drift through days losing hours, forgetting to remain in my body. How they call me absentminded, forgetful. The way I am mercury spilling over surfaces—solid and liquid, here and not.”
    ― Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
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    Nghi Vo
    “The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story.”
    ― Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill
    tags: story, storytelling
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold;
    When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: ents, entwives, longing, loss, song
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    Audre Lorde
    “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
    ― audre lorde
    tags: preservation, self-care
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?"

    "The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: curiousity, knowledge, the-two-towers
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: death, love
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    “Susannah, you are Heaven made flesh, you have been the greatest fire of my life. It’s not good enough, I know, but for every time I made you feel inadequate, I have died a hundred deaths. I’ll love you until the earth finishes.”
    ― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
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    “At one time or another, everybody falls irreparably in love. Nobody ever really gets over it.”
    ― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
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    David Foster Wallace
    “Every love story is a ghost story.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, HENRY AND JUNE
    tags: inspirational, understanding
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