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“Isabel had never known loneliness like that, one that arrived without the promise of leaving.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“We didn’t take enough photos of Bobby, we didn’t understand photos would be the only thing we’d have left.”
― Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country

“That's what happens when people die. They take themselves with them and you never ever find out anything new about them ever.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“There are, in the genealogical tree, traumatized, unprocessed places that are eternally seeking relief. From these places, arrows are launched toward future generations. Anything that has not been resolved must be repeated and will affect someone else, a target located one or more generations in the future.”
― Anne Berest, The Postcard