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“Nothing is harder to love about the natural world—or the human world—than its ceaseless brutality.”
― Margaret Renkl, The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

“The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is.”
― Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

“Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that.”
― Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

“There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was make me realize that there wasn't so big a difference between the man who brutalized Denise and half the men I passed every day on the street.”
― Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women