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“the fact that it’s unbelievable but every single thing alive has its own center of being, and looks out on the world from that point of view, even a worm, or a jellyfish, hamsters, owls, the fact that even a leaf has feelings, the fact that you know the leaves are enjoying this warm sun going right through them,”
― Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport

“the fact that two whole jars of bay leaves is really like a lifetime’s supply, the fact that I wonder if every household has too many bay leaves, the fact that the number of bay leaves you own can easily get out of hand,”
― Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport

“the fact that now it’s Philip Glass on the radio, the fact that I wonder how many people in Ohio care about Philip Glass,”
― Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport

“the fact that we all go on pretending things are fine, hoping everything’s a-okay, even though everything is nowhere near okay and we all know it, no matter how many candlelit vigils you hold”
― Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport

“the fact that you’ll never know what sort of person you might have been if you’d read different stuff”
― Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport