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Toni Morrison
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

Carol Shields
“The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals”
Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

William Faulkner
“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”
William C. Faulkner

Elizabeth Strout
“Don't be scared of your hunger. If you're scared of your hunger, you'll just be one more ninny like everyone else.”
Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

Edith Wharton
“He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.”
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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