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“strong. ... what everyone called people who’d gone through something hard. so resilient, so tough. they said these words like they were supposed to be compliments, but i was beginning to recognize them for what they truly were: a cheap consolation prize given in exchange for our time, labor, and health"

“there was a time when we were scared … but we weren’t alone. there were always people waiting. all we had to do was let the lights in the distance remind us the way”

“i’ve had more than my share of magic in life, most often in the encounter with others. there is something there, and only there. i can’t be more specific than that, can only say that if we’re searching we should look in each other, that a pair of eyes are another’s sideways colon into something, or out of something”

pages-long paragraphs are not for me

“spring was giving way to summer. ... a familiar itch was creeping in. that aching toward something wild — when the days get longer and a walk ... becomes entirely pleasant from morning to night, when you want to ... fling all responsibility to the wayside. but for the first time it felt like an impulse i needed to turn away from. ... no more summer vacations for me, no more idle days. i needed to accept ... change"

i always love a reminder that eleanor roosevelt was (probably) a wlw

"no one chooses the right symbolic occasion; one takes what's available"