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Emory’s Quotes

“We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl

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“If your world is out there and you are in here then the only things that will gather within these walls are time and bitterness. Eventually, that bitterness will eat away at you and leave nothing behind but resentment and hate.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: coping-mechanism, philosophical-musings, prison-philosophy

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“...you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep in balance." [Chief Bromden]”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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“bubble bath”
― Jon Scieszka, Terrifying Tales

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“Few events in a human being’s life—at least a male human being’s life—are as free, as exuberant, as infinitely expansive and filled with potential as the first day of summer when one is an eleven-year-old boy. The summer lies ahead like a great banquet and the days are filled with rich, slow time in which to enjoy each course.”
― Dan Simmons, Summer of Night

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