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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“For the rest of my life, I will live with my hands outstretched for things that are no longer there.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

Brené Brown
“when I’m prioritizing being liked over being free, I was much sweeter but less authentic. Now I’m kinder and less judgmental. But also firmer and more solid. Occasionally salty.”
Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

Brené Brown
“Comparison is the crush of conformity from one side and competition from the other—it’s trying to simultaneously fit in and stand out. Comparison says, “Be like everyone else, but better.”
Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

Hanya Yanagihara
“He had always been wary of children, their unflinching, unbroken gazes that suggested they could see him in a way that adults no longer bothered to or could,”
Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“I did not know that we cry with our muscles. The pain is not surprising, but its physicality is: my tongue unbearably bitter, as though I ate a loathed meal and forgot to clean my teeth; on my chest, a heavy, awful weight; and inside my body, a sensation of eternal dissolving. My heart – my actual physical heart, nothing figurative here – is running away from me, has become its own separate thing, beating too fast, its rhythms at odds with mine. This is an affliction not merely of the spirit but of the body, of aches and lagging strength.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

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