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by Barbara Kingsolver

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Feb 16, 2026 10:52AM

“To encounter oneself is to encounter the other: and this is love. If I know that my soul trembles, I know that yours does, too: and if I can respect this, both of us can live. Neither of us, truly, can live without the other: a statement which would not sound so banal if one were not so endlessly compelled to repeat it, and act on that belief.”
― James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work: Essays

tags: empathy, love

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“My days had not felt so expansive since that early summer in the mountain hut when I first learned to trust the hours instead of fill them.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

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“Just as a single rainstorm can erode the banks and change the course of a river, so can a single circumstance of a girl’s life erase who she was before.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

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“Flowing forward against obstacle was not my whole story. For, like the river, I had also gathered along the way all the tiny pieces connecting me to everything else, and doing this had delivered me here,”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

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