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“Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?”
― Richard Yates, Young Hearts Crying

“The only perfection available to you without compromise is that of intention and effort. If you endeavor to be the best pencil sharpener you can be, and tailor your actions accordingly, you can be certain all else will be forgiven in the final accounting.”
― David Rees, How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants

“I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.”
― Tana French, In the Woods

“That which is hard to do is best done bitterly.”
― John Hodgman, More Information Than You Require