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“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Suffering does make us more sensitive until it crushes us completely.”
― Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets