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Trust Issues

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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich

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There was a Ukrainian woman at the market selling big red apples. ‘Come get your apples! Chernobyl apples!’ Someone told her not to advertise that, no one will buy them. ‘Don’t worry!’ she says. ‘They buy them anyway. Some need them for ...more

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“Sometimes, when you get something new, you trick yourself into believing it has the power to change absolutely everything about you.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

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“We have to build our lives out of what materials we have. It's as though we were given a heap of blocks and told to build a house.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Emily of Deep Valley

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“Please come back soon. The window is always open.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

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“May I ask what you have in your black leather bag with gold buckles?"
"Everything." They were climbing a narrow staircase. Rhoda stopped to look when Jennie opened her bag.
"You do have everything."
"I have even more," Jennie said modestly. "Two windows that I left at home.”
― Maurice Sendak, Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

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“Part of what you have to figure out in this life is, Who would I be if I hadn’t been frightened? What hurt me, and what would I be if it hadn’t?”
― Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy: A Memoir

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