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“It is difficult to give thought to the stars when the ground is swallowing you up.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

“The core of being a witch is that you don’t fall down while there’s work to be done. Sometimes that means you invent work to keep yourself standing upright.”
― T. Kingfisher, Jackalope Wives and Other Stories

“How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself?”
― Isaac Asimov, The Currents of Space

“Love from those who cannot damage us irreparably often feels insufficient; we may think, rightly or wrongly, that their love does not matter at all.”
― Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose