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We both lay back down, and she looked at me in the eyes, and we were sad together for a while. I’ll never forget how that felt. Like not being hungry.


“We can't change the world, and a lot of the time we can't even change people. No more than one bit at a time. So we do what we can to help whenever we get the chance, sweetheart. We save those we can. We do our best. Then we try to find a way to convince ourselves that that will just have to...be enough. So we can live with our failures without drowning.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People

“This was the version of her who had survived and there was no sense in apologizing for being a survivor.”
― The Bandit Queens
― The Bandit Queens

“That we do our best. We plant an apple tree today, even if we know the world is going to be destroyed tomorrow. We save those we can.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People

“Hatred arises so quickly that one drop is all it takes before it spreads like ink on a page.”
― When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary
― When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary

“Choose beauty and sorrow over numbness and oblivion. Choose it again and again. Choose it as long as you have any choice.”
― Colton Gentry's Third Act: A Novel
― Colton Gentry's Third Act: A Novel

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