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“These are the days that must happen to you.”
― Walt Whitman

“Then, for a moment, silence dominates the path to the summit of Everest. If the furious race of monsoon winds blasting the outlines of the Nepalese mountain range can be considered silence.”
― Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas

“I learn more from books than from people.”
― William Sleator, The Beasties

“Time moves sideways through the most important moments of our lives.”
― Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

“Here was a man who had shot a bullet at me. Who had rammed me into a tree. Who had called me disgusting, many times. Who had strong armed me casually whenever he thought I needed to be taught a lesson…and who had raped me a time or two-my mind, unconvinced, interrupts me here to say, “Oh Celia, don’t catastrophize; rape is such a judgmental word, when you know he never left bruises…”
― Claire Oshetsky, Evil Genius