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The God of the Woods
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Mary Karr
“Dumb hope is what it hurts most to write, occupying the foolish schemes we pursued for decades, the blind alleys, the cliffs we stepped off.”
Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir

Anna Akhmatova
“I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Anne Carson
“...I am talking about evil.

It blooms.
It eats.
It grins.”
Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God
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Frida Kahlo
“I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.”
Frida Kahlo

Roxane Gay
“It’s hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you’re going to float the fuck away.”
Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

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