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Saudade by Suneeta Peres da Costa

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besieged by terror about an uncertain future, and all her gestures seemed colonised by this fear…

Nothing to See Here

by Kevin Wilson

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Teresa’s Quotes

“Do you think you're the only one groping? We're all in the dark together. Wait until God please to clear the sky.”
― Edith Pargeter, The Scarlet Seed

tags: darkness, suffering, togetherness

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“Disliking humanity in general, she was one of those excessively tender-hearted people who are greatly moved by the troubles of complete strangers, in which she sometimes imagined herself playing a noble part.”
― Barbara Pym, Jane and Prudence

tags: empathy, misanthropy, strangers, tender-hearted

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“If we make our own meanings, God will oblige us to answer our own questions: He will leave us in the void without the comfort of his word.”
― Barry Unsworth, Morality Play

tags: god, questions, truth

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“If you cannot imagine pain fully, neither can you fully imagine the resources you have in you to meet it and overcome it.”
― Edith Pargeter, The Heaven Tree

tags: overcoming-adversity, pain

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“I can't move to pull on my clothes except that somehow I do, and I can't stand on two feet except that somehow I do, and I can't walk, there's no way I can walk, except I do. I take step after step after step after step.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

tags: determination, survival

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