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“People rarely know what they have until they lose it. They spend their lives searching for a better one, wanting more, needing more, blind to the fact that they already had it all. I”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“Marriage is made of a million beautiful and ugly moments stitched together into a shared tapestry of memories, all of which are viewed and remembered slightly differently, like two people staring at the same painting from opposite ends of a room.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“and skin—surprisingly makes up less than 2 percent of our total DNA.14 The other 98 percent consists of what is called noncoding DNA (ncDNA), and is responsible for many of the emotional, behavioral, and personality traits we inherit.15 Scientists used to call it “junk DNA,” thinking it was mostly useless, but they’ve recently begun to recognize its significance. Interestingly, the percentage of noncoding DNA increases with the complexity of the organism, with humans having the highest percentage.16”
― Mark Wolynn, It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

“My parents accepted westernization to survive, and I have had to assimilate to potentially thrive.”
― Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color