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“Bliss outweighs pain—and the human mind, as I know all too well, has an incredible capacity for forgetting how acute our pain can be. It’s how we survive. It’s how we manage to walk away from trauma yet go on living.”
― K.A. Riley, Ascend

“You look at the past so that you can understand it, and through it you come to a better understanding of your own time. If you’re lucky, sometimes you can even extrapolate to possible futures.”
― M.R. Carey, The Boy on the Bridge