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“Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“All my life, longings lived inside me, rising up like nocturnes to wail and sing through the night. That my husband bent his heart to mine on our thin straw mat and listened was the kindness I most loved in him. What he heard was my life begging to be born.”
― The Book of Longings
― The Book of Longings
“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
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“What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?”
― This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
― This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
“Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.”
― Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
― Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
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