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“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

“It's like getting the best Christmas gift ever, but Santa decided to kick the crap out of you before you unwrapped it.”
― Adrienne Martini, Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood

“You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency