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“The pain we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus the King

“LONELINESS I too have known loneliness. I too have known what it is to feel misunderstood, rejected, and suddenly not at all beautiful. Oh, mother earth, your comfort is great, your arms never withhold. It has saved my life to know this. Your rivers flowing, your roses opening in the morning. Oh, motions of tenderness!”
― Mary Oliver, Blue Horses: Poems

“The way memory is the ringing after a gunshot. The way we try to remember the gunshot but can’t. The way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking.”
― Victoria Chang, Obit

“It’s an old word, fading now. Dearly did I wish. Dearly did I long for. I loved him dearly.”
― Margaret Atwood, Dearly