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“The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose. An unguarded moment, stripped of artifice, when one forgets to fool even oneself.”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

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“If we had taken up this habit of kindness long ago, before we fell into darkness, what suffering might we have spared the world and ourselves?”
― Olivia Hawker, The Ragged Edge of Night

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“I have come to believe that food is history of the deepest kind. Everything we eat tells a tale of ingenuity and creation, domination and injustice-and does so more vividly than any other artifact, any other medium.”
― Robin Sloan, Sourdough

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“With that knowledge comes her acceptance that to have the life she wants, she has to repaint the painting.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

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“The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the ‘tonic of wildness’ as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

tags: connection, loneliness, nature, solitude

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