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This House of Grief

by Helen Garner

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“There should be a word for this, the way it feels to steal something that’s already yours.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

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“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

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“But home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

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“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

tags: aesthetics, architecture, light, shadows

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