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“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich

“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
― Eugene O'Neill

“It's a dangerous mission. You could die out there. You could go on forever.”
― Tess Gallagher

“...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
― Joseph Mitchell

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

“Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.”
― Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

“There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.”
― Sharon Olds

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
― Aldo Leopold