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“We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“Worry, she often reminds her patients, is a kind of creativity. Fear is an act of the imagination.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“It is the desire for irreverence as much as anything else that brought me first to poetry. The need to make fun of authority, break taboos, celebrate the body and its functions, claim that one has seen angels in the same breath as one says that there is no god.”
― Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth