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“When something unjust happens, you should feel how aggravating it is. And then, after you’ve sat with those feelings for the appropriate amount of time—and it could be an hour, or a day, or months, depending on the severity of what happened—then, you can go back to a state of rest. Or joy. Or whatever.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“Maybe we will drown or burn or starve one day, but until then we get to choose if we’ll add to that destruction or if we will care for each other.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“This is what Ireland does. It calls her children home.”
― Amy Harmon, What the Wind Knows

“What is the point of having friends if they’re not there to support your bad decisions?”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love