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The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King
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“The thing you need to know about pencils,” she said as she rotated it in her hands, “is that their hearts remember.”
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“Today, what matters for her, for me, is making flowers grow.”
― Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers
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“Beneath them, Sune asks him to carve the only message he can bring himself to say:

You run on ahead.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners
tags: inspirational-life
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Min Jin Lee
“Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you.” Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
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“I like giving life. Sowing, watering, harvesting. And starting again every year. I like life just as it is today. Bathed in sunshine. I like being at the essence of things.”
― Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers
tags: inspirational-attitude
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“But since I've never had a taste for unhappiness, I decided it wouldn't last. Unhappiness has to stop someday.”
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tags: grief-and-loss, inspirational, love
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