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“They were as ready as ever to burst out laughing and I began to understand that it wasn't out of stupidity or hopelessness, but as a means of survival.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“You think, because I always do as you bid me, I have no judgment of my own: but only try me—that is all I ask—and you shall see what I can do.”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

“How can your unconscious turn on you with such cruelty?”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“A friend sends me a line from a novel I wrote: “Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved.” How odd to find it so exquisitely painful to read my own words.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief