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“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Home

“I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.”
― Leslie Jamison, The Gin Closet

“We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.”
― Mona Simpson

“I have been thinking about existence lately. In fact, I have been so full of admiration for existence that I have hardly been able to enjoy it properly . . . I feel sometimes as if I were a child who opens its eyes on the world once and sees amazing things it will never know any names for and then has to close its eyes again. I know this is all mere apparition compared to what awaits us, but it is only lovelier for that. There is a human beauty in it. And I can’t believe that, when we have all been changed and put on incorruptibility, we will forget our fantastic condition of mortality and impermanence, the great bright dream of procreating and perishing that meant the whole world to us. In eternity this world will be Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets. Because I don’t imagine any reality putting this one in the shade entirely, and I think piety forbids me to try.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God