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“Because there is nothing worse than having unexplained symptoms. Feeling like there’s something terribly wrong—but nothing that can be measured in exams, and you know the doctor thinks it’s all in your head.”
― Hildur Knútsdóttir, The Night Guest

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“Librarians are always smart, a little nuts, and know how to party.”
― John Waters, Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

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“Above all, she is the girl who "feels" things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever young.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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“When Einstein objected to quantum mechanics by remarking that “God does not play dice,” Bohr responded by admonishing him, “Stop telling God what to do.” Which means: Nature is richer than our metaphysical prejudices. It has more imagination than we do.”
― Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

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“The patriarchy speaks with my mother’s voice”
― Hildur Knútsdóttir, The Night Guest

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