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Esme Sullivan was the kind of woman who kept an acorn on every windowsill to ward off bad spirits, and boiled old shoes in a Dutch oven to guard against snakes coming into the yard. When her cat sat with its back to the fire, she prepared
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“Listening to her, I realized that Nell was maybe the saddest person I had ever known, although she hid it. I thought maybe she was sad for the same reasons as me. Because sometimes, there was too much goodness in the world to bear.”
― Eli the Good
― Eli the Good
“There’s nothing more powerful than a group of women talking about their feelings.”
― The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance
― The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance
“Ultimately reality is far worse and far better than anything that either adult or child can ever dream.”
― Eli the Good
― Eli the Good
“It didn’t seem right for something like a riverbank to be kept up; wild things should be free to remain wild.”
― Eli the Good
― Eli the Good
“Years later I would realize that this was one of the world’s great problems, that people often allow themselves not to think. They choose to not think, and that’s how the whole world gets into trouble.”
― Eli the Good
― Eli the Good
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