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“I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.”
― Joan Didion

“but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas