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Jeff Vandermeer
“Silence creates its own violence.”
Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

Willa Cather
“They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.”
Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

Rebecca Solnit
“In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.”
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Paul Auster
“I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.”
Paul Auster, Moon Palace
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Victoria Chang
“You told me that suffering can deepen and expand a poet's work. And that sometimes suffering can put so much pressure on a person that they have no choice but to become a poet.”
Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief

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