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“He had made himself believe that he was going to get well, which was really more than half the battle.”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden
“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.”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden
“I didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.”
― I'll Give You the Sun
― I'll Give You the Sun
“The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.”
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
“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.”
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
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