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“Once you’ve been on the losing side of great odds, you never find statistics comforting again.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

“The world is so big and life could be fragile…but not so big that one person can’t do something to change it.”
― Jacinda Ardern, A Different Kind of Power

“For the first time I experienced a place where nature is big and we are small. I understood that wilderness was what my human brain and body had been adapted to for millennia and that the only life I’d known, in a crowded city, was a profoundly unnatural habitat for my species.”
― Geraldine Brooks, Memorial Days

“What she called absentmindedness seemed to me so unremarkable, so common, and so universal – indeed the basis of everyday life – that one could only conclude that all of us are monsters, that is to say, none of us is.”
― Vincent Delecroix, Small Boat