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“It’s like a cracked mirror now,” Lois says. “Something is always missing. The mirror doesn’t get put back the way it was, but if you work, you can get a piece of it back.”
― Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

“No story is insignificant. That’s what the existence of the Unwritten Wing teaches us. No escapist fantasy, no far-off dream, no remembered suffering. Every story has meaning, has power. Every story has the power to sustain, the power to destroy, the power to create. Stories shape time, for Pete’s sake. Once upon a time. Long, long ago. Someday. And then what happened? Living author or dead, written or not, your story shakes the world. That’s common sense to a muse, and the idea librarians are supposed to honor. That every story, every human, matters. The hard part is convincing ourselves first. Apprentice Librarian Brevity, 2010 CE”
― A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten

“Issa was one of Japan’s “Great Four” haiku masters. The heartbroken poet wrote of his inability to accept impermanence: “I concede that water can never return to its source, nor scattered blossoms to their branch, but even so the bonds of affection are hard to break.”
― Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

“Live as though all your ancestors were living again through you,” said the ancient Greeks.”
― Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole