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Ali Smith
“It's all right to forget, you know, he said. It's good to. In fact, we have to forget things sometimes. Forgetting it is important. We do it on purpose. It means we get a bit of a rest. Are you listening? We have to forget. Or we'd never sleep ever again.”
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“How can a person claim to love you and yet want you to do things that suit only them? Udenna was like that.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck
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Ali Smith
“But news right now is like a flock of speeded-up sheep running off the side of a cliff.”
Ali Smith, Autumn
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Ali Smith
“The lifelong friends, he said. We sometimes wait a lifetime for them.”
Ali Smith, Autumn

Michelle Obama
“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
Michelle Obama, Becoming

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