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I wouldn’t tell anyone at the office of my mother’s death. I could imagine the orgy of fussing and sighing, the clammy embraces and the expressions of sorrow for the loss of someone they’d never met and didn’t even know existed. Not really ...more
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Bernard M. Baruch
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
Bernard M. Baruch

Laura  Silverman
“But maybe that’s why time has felt so slippery lately; I’ve lost my sun-warmed tether.”
Laura Silverman, Up All Night: 13 Stories between Sunset and Sunrise

bell hooks
“For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.”
Bell Hooks

Victoria Schwab
“A dreamer,” scorns her mother.

“A dreamer,” mourns her father.

“A dreamer,” warns Estele.

Still, it does not seem such a bad word.”
V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Sharon Salzberg
“We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.”
Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

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