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“Every picture taken of you reduces your spirit and shortens your life”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go. Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“If love were easy, it wouldn’t feel like magic when you finally got it right.”
― Linda Yellin, What Nora Knew