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“Where does seeking justice end and seeking vengeance begin?”
― Paula Stokes, This Is How It Happened

tags: justice, vengeance

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“We are drawn to certain locations where the land resonates with us and pulls us towards it. People can spend their entire lives looking for the places where they belong, places where they feel at home, where they fit and can comfortably set down roots.”
― Mary Reynolds, The Garden Awakening: Designs to nurture our land and ourselves

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“Those who don't belong to any specific place can't, in fact, return anywhere.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words

tags: belonging, home, travel

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“It’s no small thing—ending someone else’s life. There should be some sort of gravity to that, shouldn’t there? My insides are heavy, but it has nothing to do with what I did. It is only about what I have lost.”
― Paula Stokes, Ferocious

tags: killing, vengeance

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“I remember a time when all I wanted was a gun and to learn how to use it. I thought a gun would make me feel safe. I thought a gun would make me feel powerful. But right now I just feel . . . heavy. Like I live in this world of death and destruction and I’ll never escape alive.”
― Paula Stokes, Ferocious

tags: death, guns, power, safety

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