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“The trick is forgetting for one moment and then forgetting for another moment and then look, the moments run together like a string of beads, and there is heartbreak in the forgetting of heartbreak, in the forgetting of pain, which returns bright and pulsing regardless of the seconds it has been put aside. Do not leave me here, it tells you. Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

“In a world driven by a sense that deliberate optimization is always the route to progress, sometimes the contingent accidents are the ones that most inspire and improve our lives.”
― Brian Klaas, Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

“That was perhaps a definition of innocence: not knowing what one was capable of.”
― Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

“I remember the words of a physicist: Anything that can happen will happen. What we resist the most is eventually what must befall us. What we fight eventually becomes our future.”
― Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe