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“You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring.”
― Jennifer Skiff, The Divinity of Dogs: True Stories of Miracles Inspired by Man's Best Friend

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“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

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“We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

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“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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“Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so often, I catch a glimpse of my life out of the corner of my eye, and am rendered breathless by it.”
― Jonathan Tropper

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