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“Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one’s neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one’s hands to stop every day from becoming yesterday.”
― Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

“There is no real salvation from one's own life; books, however, off the approximation of it.”
― Yiyun Li, Things in Nature Merely Grow