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“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.”
― Anais Nin

“She wondered whether the books she loved consoled her precisely because they were the manifestations of her own isolation.”
― Rachel Cusk, Arlington Park