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“Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.”
― Edna O'Brien, In the Forest

“The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

“The world doesn't stop because you are in love or in mourning or in need of time to think. And so when I have thought I was in my story or in charge of it, I really have only been on the edge of it.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

“It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow