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“I expect to pass through this world but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do my fellow being; let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
― Liz Cheney, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

“But then there were moments most people didn’t see. Ask anyone who has lived through depression, and chances are at least some of them will tell you it was the most unlikely thing—that they had everything to be happy about. But even the people who have no terrible, obvious burden to carry can find themselves staggering under the weight of a dull, constant dread. It doesn’t add up, but it’s true. Everything around”
― Mary Laura Philpott, I Miss You When I Blink: Essays

“But then there were moments most people didn’t see. Ask anyone who has lived through depression, and chances are at least some of them will tell you it was the most unlikely thing—that they had everything to be happy about. But even the people who have no terrible, obvious burden to carry can find themselves staggering under the weight of a dull, constant dread. It doesn’t add up, but it’s true.”
― Mary Laura Philpott, I Miss You When I Blink: Essays

“Being alone meant not having to pretend to be okay.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Left Behind