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“Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“The reality is pain—you said that! But it’s the lies, the evasions of reality, that drive you crazy. It’s the lies that make you want to kill yourself”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“didn’t know how I could bare to part with them, seeing them clean.”
― Gwen Hunter, Delayed Diagnosis

“the older we get, the more experiences we have to remember. The brain is wise enough to hold on to the important stuff and not fixate on the mundane.”
― Mollie Hunt, Ghost Cat on the Midway

“of becoming a curator seemed so impossible, so far removed from the life I was living, that I felt like I had more chance of becoming an astronaut than I ever would of actually getting my dream career off the ground.”
― Mike Gayle, The Museum of Ordinary People

“If you’d be happy to live in a magical dictatorship, where the leader goes permanently unchallenged and can do whatever they want to, including torture, death and corruption of the highest order, then yes, Ms Wilde, things could be worse.”
― Helen Harper, Slouch Witch