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The powerful can do as they please, while the little people must do what will please them.
“Thank you for the pain you caused me, because that pain woke me up. It hurt enough to make me change.”
― You Could Make This Place Beautiful
― You Could Make This Place Beautiful
“For to wish to forget how much you loved someone—and then to actually forget—can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.”
― You Could Make This Place Beautiful
― You Could Make This Place Beautiful
“Art is a site of wonder and discovery—or rediscovery. Art is a place where we might learn what we think, not a place where we teach the reader what we've already processed.”
― Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life
― Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life
“I tell myself not to count the years ahead in which she might never again come, but rather cherish the days she has given me of her own free will, when she lowered her species’ instinctive guard against humans, and shared the beauty and mystery of her presence in silent and graceful companionship. I will remember her leaving, but I will always know that before she did, she always, first, looked back.”
― Raising Hare: A Memoir
― Raising Hare: A Memoir
“what a complete mindfuck it is to lose the shelter of your marriage, but also how expansive the view is without that shelter, how big the sky is—”
― You Could Make This Place Beautiful
― You Could Make This Place Beautiful
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