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“It is very heartening to know that even when we get it wrong (i.e. being human) we can make it right with authenticity and kindness.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, A Matter of Death and Life

“This is important: he sees me in a certain way, a way he will never deviate from. In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“This wasn't distraction or entertainment: here was a book that seemed to have been written for me, which lifted me up into its realm and united me with something that seemed to have been there all along and that I seemed to be a part of. It felt as if the words and the thoughts of the narrator - despite their agony, despite their pain - healed some of my agony and my pain, simply by existing.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling to put them in order, that almost destroyed me. It's also what allowed me to live again.”
― Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine