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“Forgive me if the wind stole the howl from my mouth and whipped it against your windowpanes. When I lived, I wanted to be seen.”
― Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter