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“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“This is the memoir of my body. My body was broken. I was broken. I did not know how to put myself back together. I was splintered. A part of me was dead. A part of me was mute and would stay that way for many years.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
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“Knowledge, of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can’t fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can’t make them undead.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?
The patients get better and leave.”
― Every Fifteen Minutes
The patients get better and leave.”
― Every Fifteen Minutes
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