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“…I try to distinguish between despair as a feeling and as a forecast.” (73)

“…there’s another kind of depth achieved by moving slow, seeing up close, lingering, living in detail. You’re not trying to get somewhere else but to know better where you are.” (39)

“I was meandering but not lost” (44)

“Familiarity is a life raft or some floating trash we might mistake for a life raft, but the task isn’t to try to bellyflop onto the flotsam; it’s to swim. We are in the ocean and time is fluid and the waves will keep coming and there is a distinct possibility that this is okay.” (Solnit 31)