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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“When we wonder, we loosen the cords that restrain our love. And the people most in love with a thing are prone to become its fiercest protectors.”
― Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

“It’s one thing to be looked at, and another to be seen.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984