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“I don't know what I think until I write it down.”
― Joan Didion

“What makes life meaningful enough to go on living?”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“It’s easy to make your life into stories. But it’s harder to sustain real memories…The difference between a story and a real memory, the real experience has a smell and is dirty and is not wrapped up in simple endings. The real memories are what effects me now. Things can appear that you don’t want to see, where you’re not safe, and even if you don’t actually unleash the memories, the effect is there. It’s in your body.”
― Nan Goldin