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“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
― Anais Nin

“My mother used rituals to perpetuate an illusion of family organization.”
― Patricia Thompson Collamer, Grace on the Ledge: a memoir

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking