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“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

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“I cannot overstate the benefits of a busy day for an anxious mind or a lonely heart.”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

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“Alice would always remember this day as the one that changed her life irrevocably, even though it would take her the next twenty years to understand: life is lived forward but only understood backward. You can't see the landscape you're in while you're in it”
― Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

tags: flowers, recovery, trauma

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“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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“Is sorrow the true wild?
And if it is鈥攁nd if we join them鈥攜our wild to mine鈥攚hat鈥檚 that?
For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I鈥檓 saying. I鈥檓 saying: What if that is joy?”
― Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

tags: delight, joy, sorrow

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