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‘A memory is a place you visit, not where you live. Happiness therefore is not a permanent state of being, but more a moment in time.
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Anthony Doerr
“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr
“I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. Sometimes it looks almost red. Or it will turn the color of old coins. Right now the shadows of clouds are dragging across it, and patches of sunlight are touching down everywhere. White strings of gulls drag over it like beads.

It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

Elizabeth Jane Howard
“In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of
accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it been put,
was too much paid for it and did it teach you anything? How much
has been learned by experience? Have I discovered where I am useful
and useless, how I am nourished and starved?”
Elizabeth Jane Howard

Karen Joy Fowler
“Over the years I’ve come to feel that the way people respond to us has less to do with what we’ve done and more to do with who they are.”
Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler
“We call them feelings because we feel them. They don't start in our minds, they arise in our bodies.”
Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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