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“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he died unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Kids don't need a life where nothing bad ever happens. What they need is someone who's there for them when the bad stuff happens.”
― Allison Larkin, Home of the American Circus

“Is there a greater flex than love?”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water