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“This is what makes my mother my mother. She loves the flower and she wants me to know this flower, but she will only smell it once, and then give it to me for unlimited sniffing pleasure and she will be happy about it all.”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

“What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House