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“Every new place he loved eventually became a place he was destined to miss.”
― Rajia Hassib, A Pure Heart

“Why love what you will lose?
There is nothing else to love.”
― Louise Glück, The Triumph of Achilles

“This is the story of my life, that while I lived it weighed upon me and pressed against me and filled all my senses to overflowing and now is like a dream dreamed.”
― Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

“A moth was a caterpillar, once, but it no longer is a caterpillar. It cannot break itself back down, cannot metamorphose in reverse. To try to eat leaves again would mean starvation. Crawling back into the husk would provide no shelter. It is a paradox – the impossibility of reclaiming that which lies behind, housed within a form comprised entirely of the repurposed pieces of that same past. We exist where we begin, yet to remain there is death.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

“a home can only exist in a moment. Something both found and made. Always temporary, in the grand scheme of things, but vital all the same.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate