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That was one of the strangest things about motherhood. You could love your baby to pieces, be thankful every day for his ten tiny toes and his piercing wail and his all-consuming existence, and yet still mourn the life you’d had before. And ...more
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Dr. Seuss
“And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.”
Dr. Seuss, Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

Joseph Campbell
“What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.”
Joseph Campbell

Oliver Burkeman
“[Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.”
Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness For People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

Douglas Adams
“There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.”
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“But there is another story, to which I was an even more direct witness, and that is the story of how a man skilled in deception and intrigue took over an entire political party and bent it to his will. The four years of the Trump presidency destroyed many friendships, and not a few marriages. But it also destroyed the Republican Party—once devoted to robust alliances, a healthy mistrust of executive power, and the expansion of democracy around the world—and turned it into something else, something unrecognizable, an antidemocratic party, a party willing to tear down the institutions of its own government, a party willing to give aid and comfort to a malign foreign power that wishes to destroy us, a party hostile to the truth.”
Adam Schiff, Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could

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