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“Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“The pain we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus the King

“It’s an old word, fading now. Dearly did I wish. Dearly did I long for. I loved him dearly.”
― Margaret Atwood, Dearly

“LONELINESS I too have known loneliness. I too have known what it is to feel misunderstood, rejected, and suddenly not at all beautiful. Oh, mother earth, your comfort is great, your arms never withhold. It has saved my life to know this. Your rivers flowing, your roses opening in the morning. Oh, motions of tenderness!”
― Mary Oliver, Blue Horses: Poems