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“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards, they try to have more things or more money in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are then do what you need to do in order to have what you want. ”
― Margaret Young

“This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me”
― Walt Whitman

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn