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“An extraordinary amount of intimacy lay in exchanging art. Not for critique and not for class. Just to look. To feel. To understand each other.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

“But life cannot be experienced one emotion at a time. It is a tapestry of sensation, a braided rope of feeling. We must allow for reflection even when we suffer. We must reach for compassion even when we triumph. If you spend your days waiting for your sorrows to end so that you might finally live”—he shook his head—“you will die an impatient man.”
― Tahereh Mafi, All This Twisted Glory

“It occurred to him then, with a vague panic, that he'd follow her off a cliff if she were the one to lead him there.”
― Tahereh Mafi, All This Twisted Glory

“From here, the war was almost beautiful. Maybe that was a fundamental truth: War looked one way for those who saw it from a safe distance. Close up, the view was different”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women