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“lot of times love doesn’t work out. Yet even when it fails, it connects you to others and, in the end, that is all you have, the connections.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“It costs our ancestors too damned much for us to have this life - the best thing we can do to honor them is to live it to its fullest.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Things We Cannot Say

“For kids like me, the part of the brain that deals with stress and conflict is always activated...We are constantly ready to fight or flee, because there is a constant exposure to the bear, whether that bear is an alcoholic dad or an unhinged mom (p228)....I see conflict and I run away or prepare for battle. (p246)”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost