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“The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“I have become a collapsing star, pulling everything around it, even the light, into an ever-expanding void.”
― Twan Eng Tan, The Garden of Evening Mists

“We violate no body so much as our own: towards it we display the perversity of the cat that constantly rips its wounds open.”
― V.S. Naipaul, The Mimic Men

“If I do not feel a sense of joy in God's creation, if I forget to offer the world back to God with thankfulness, I have advanced very little upon the Way. I have not yet learnt to be truly human. For it is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself.”
― Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way