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Joy Chalaby
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to
“Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you mustn’t shirk it. Love, after all, 'hopeth all things.' But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.”
― Hannah Coulter
― Hannah Coulter
“Dreams often revealed one’s greatest vulnerability; dreams were doors that led into hearts and minds and souls and secrets.”
― Dreams Lie Beneath
― Dreams Lie Beneath
“Sometimes things must break before they can be made whole again, so that they can be forged into something stronger.”
― Dreams Lie Beneath
― Dreams Lie Beneath
“But fathers often underestimate their daughters, don’t they?”
― Dreams Lie Beneath
― Dreams Lie Beneath
“I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What is the thread that holds it all together? Grief, I thought for a while. And grief is there sure enough, just about all the way through. From the time I was a girl I have never been far from it. But grief is not a force that has not power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.”
― Hannah Coulter
― Hannah Coulter
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The Pickwick Club
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The Not-So-Hypothetical Victorian Literature Course #VicLit
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