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“Maybe all people have that feeling deep down, that your hometown is something you can never really escape, but can never really go home to, either. Because it’s not home anymore. We’re not trying to make peace with it. Not with the streets and bricks of it. Just with the person we were back then. And maybe forgive ourselves for everything we thought we would become and didn’t.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Deal of a Lifetime

“They are voices from the past and their actions have echoed into our world and, unknown to them, they preserved our future.”
― Anna Faversham, Beware the Midnight Train

“You must learn to be generous with your absence to those
who haven’t understood the importance of your presence.”
― Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

“Have a care you mistake not the deadly Nightshade for this; if you know it not, you may let them both alone, and take no harm.” of Nightshade”
― Susan Fletcher, The Highland Witch