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    Denise M. Jones
    “You can never have too many second chances.”
    ― Denise M. Jones, Ned Finally Died
    tags: healing, inspiration, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes
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    “You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”
    ― edwin louis cole
    tags: adversity, drowning, survival
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    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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    Denise M. Jones
    “Wishes didn't come true when you chased after a star.”
    ― Denise M. Jones, Montgomery's Diary
    tags: brokenness, chasing, desires, dreams, hope, hopelessness, love
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    Denise M. Jones
    “I wondered if it was the act of dying and bad dental hygiene that his mouth was so out of shape or did death rapidly decay the spirit?”
    ― Denise M. Jones, Ned Finally Died
    tags: death, dental-hygiene, spirituality
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    Denise M. Jones
    “The silence that followed,
    much like me,
    was short lived.”
    ― Denise M. Jones, Ned Finally Died
    tags: death-and-dying, introspection, silence
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    Denise M. Jones
    “Everyone had their ideas. They all jumped and no one really knew.

    Not even me sometimes.”
    ― Denise M. Jones, Ned Finally Died
    tags: depression, introspection, loneliness
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    Denise M. Jones
    “I thought about Ned. It really wasn’t fair.

    But it was good enough.”
    ― Denise M. Jones, Ned Finally Died
    tags: fairness-of-life, life, survival
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    Yaa Gyasi
    “Forgiveness, they shouted, all the while committing their wrongs. When he was younger, Yaw wondered why they did not preach that the people should avoid wrongdoing altogether. But the older he got, the better he understood. Forgiveness was an act done after the fact, a piece of the bad deed’s future. And if you point the people’s eye to the future, they might not see what is being done to hurt them in the present.”
    ― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
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    Yaa Gyasi
    “When someone does wrong, whether it is you or me, whether it is mother or father, whether it is the Gold Coast man or the white man, it is like a fisherman casting a net into the water. He keeps only the one or two fish that he needs to feed himself and puts the rest back in the water, thinking that their lives will go back to normal. No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free. But still, Yaw, you have to let yourself be free.”
    ― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
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    Yaa Gyasi
    “We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must always ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth?”
    ― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
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    Yaa Gyasi
    “The family is like the forest: if you are outside it is dense; if you are inside you see that each tree has its own position.”
    ― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
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    Yaa Gyasi
    “You want to know what weakness is? Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.”
    ― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
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    Yaa Gyasi
    “Evil begets evil. It grows. It transmutes, so that sometimes you cannot see that the evil in the world began as the evil in your own home. I”
    ― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
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    Yaa Gyasi
    “History is Storytelling.”
    ― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
    tags: history
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    Yaa Gyasi
    “This is the problem of history. We cannot know that which we were not there to see and hear and experience for ourselves. We must rely upon the words of others.”
    ― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
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    Yaa Gyasi
    “There should be no room in your life for regret. If in the moment of doing you felt clarity, you felt certainty, then why feel regret later?” She”
    ― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
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    Peng Shepherd
    “There’s a difference between when the mind forgets and the heart does.”
    ― Peng Shepherd
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    Denise M. Jones
    “It’s more than just an antidote. It’s not even intended to be a confirmation. We all, at some point in our lives, look for the answers to things in the wrong place but more than that sometimes it takes an outside perspective to steer where we’re looking.”
    ― Denise M. Jones, Montgomery's Diary
    tags: mental-health, stress, therapy
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    Denise M. Jones
    “… when one is met with undue stress in the workplace or in life it does things to our brains, to our spirit…”
    ― Denise M. Jones, Montgomery's Diary
    tags: mental-health, spirit, stress
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    Denise M. Jones
    “Sometimes all you could do was watch. It was safer that way. But safe didn’t always protect you.”
    ― Denise M. Jones, Montgomery's Diary
    tags: diary-entry, love, mental-health
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    Denise M. Jones
    “Sometimes there was nothing to grasp.
    So, every time we let go.”
    ― Denise M. Jones, Montgomery's Diary
    tags: letting-go
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    Denise M. Jones
    “It was the third day of “you’re the only single person here.” Couple’s retreat had a way of reinvigorating Singlehood Awareness that seemed to naturally occur around the holidays, specifically November through February 14th, except the retreat offered a more concentrated formula.”
    ― Denise M. Jones, Montgomery's Diary
    tags: bitter, loneliness, single
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    Denise M. Jones
    “Words were loaded. They came with uninvited memories and they had guest. Tears weren’t welcome here.”
    ― Denise M. Jones, Montgomery's Diary
    tags: heartbroken, loneliness, love, sadness
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    John Burroughs
    “Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
    ― John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature
    tags: life, opportunity
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    Toni Morrison
    “Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
    ― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993
    tags: story, writing
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    Nelson Mandela
    “It always seems impossible until it's done.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Toni Morrison
    “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
    ― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
    tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight
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