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“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days or unseen and infrequently thought of. How without any one of these people the world is a subtly but unmistakably altered place, the dial turned just one or two degrees.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“The truth is we don’t know what we don’t know. We don’t even know the questions we need to ask in order to find out, but when we learn one tiny little thing, a dim light comes on in a dark hallway, and suddenly a new question appears.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

“Anyone who claims that blood is thicker than water, that the ties in a family who share the same genes are stronger, does not understand how love works.”
― Christina Rickardsson, Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World