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It is the only memory I have of my mother and so golden that I am almost sure I have made it up.
“Knowledge, I’ve found, will not betray you the way that people will.”
― The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
― The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
“They sleep like children, mouths open, cheeks flushed. Breathing as rhythmic as swells on a sea. No longer allowed in the rooms, their mothers and fathers watch them through double-paned glass. Isolation - that's what the doctors call it: the separation of the sick from the well. But isn't every sleep a kind of isolation? When else are we so alone?”
― The Dreamers
― The Dreamers
“When she is done she looks at herself in the mirror. Maybe she does not hate what she sees. Maybe she does not blame the image reflected back at her for everything bad that has happened.”
― The Nowhere Girls
― The Nowhere Girls
“If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion.”
― In an Absent Dream
― In an Absent Dream
“Choosing to eat fewer animal products is probably the most important action an individual can take to reverse global warming—it has a known and significant effect on the environment, and, done collectively, would push the culture and the marketplace with more force than any march.”
― We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
― We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
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