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“he wished he could have roots spreading under every inch of his lost soil, his beloved lost home, that he could have been part of something, that he could have been himself, walking down the road not taken, living a life in context and not the migrant's hollow journey that had been his fate”
― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“But some feelings take a long time, they sort of grow behind your back. You turn around thirty years later and there they are.”
― Elizabeth Hay, His Whole Life

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost