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Frances Hodgson Burnett
“He had made himself believe that he was going to get well, which was really more than half the battle.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett
“You learn things by saying them over and over and thinking about them until they stay in your mind forever and I think it will be the same with Magic. If you keep calling it to come to you and help you it will get to be part of you and it will stay and do things.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

Jandy Nelson
“I didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.”
Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

Carson McCullers
“The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.”
Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Olivia Laing
“I don't believe the cure for loneliness is meeting someone, not necessarily. I think it's about two things: learning how to befriend yourself and understanding that many of the things that seem to afflict us as individuals are in fact a result of larger forces of stigma and exclusion, which can and should be resisted.”
Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

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