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“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Someone asked me what home was, and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your rib cage.”
― e.e. cummings

“Maybe another person couldn’t irrevocably save you, but they could sometimes calm you down, and that felt like an exquisitely magical thing.”
― Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

“The world as it was would almost never be the world you wanted it to be, and there was a certain pleasure in finding your space in the schism.”
― Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

“And it was striking, how much less alone that could make you feel, because of course to be peopled at all was a high-order gift, but to find people beyond your people was nothing short of miraculous, finding a person away from home who felt like home and shifted, subsequently, the very notion of home, widening its borders.”
― Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

“There’s something exceptional about friendships with friends you’ve known since you were young. They know all the versions of you. They know how you were built. They have a map for you. There’s a shorthand between you, and a love that is as strong as any blood tie.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Last Night

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar

“Cheerios”
― Courtney Sheinmel, Who's in Charge