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David Foster Wallace
“Every love story is a ghost story.”
David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

James Baldwin
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”
James Baldwin

Kevin    Wilson
“A lot of times when I think I’m being self-sufficient, I’m really just learning to live without the things that I need.”
Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here

Elizabeth Strout
“Grief is such a—oh, it is such a solitary thing; this is the terror of it, I think. It is like sliding down the outside of a really long glass building while nobody sees you.”
Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
“Good daughters are fortunate lamps, brightening the family's name. Wicked daughters are firebrands, blackening the family's fame.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Before We Visit the Goddess

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