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“One of the more popular theories behind the triggers for hoarding indicates that people who were neglected emotionally as children learn to form attachments to objects instead of people. When they do connect with others, they then keep any object that reminds them of that person as a way of holding on to those attachments.”
― Kimberly Rae Miller, Coming Clean

“Humans find unity in chaos, purpose in war, honor in battle. It is their curse that they cannot flourish without conflict.”
― Lori M. Lee, The Infinite

“That’s one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Always clear your mind after a bad play. Learn from your mistakes, but don’t dwell on them.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars