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Joyce Daley
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“I’ve learned how big of a dream it is to have a small life. That the cost of ambition is high.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
“What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.”
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“People always say not to forget because then history will repeat itself. But maybe history will repeat itself anyway, and forgetting is how we bear it.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
“Sometimes a woman's choice is between impossible and impossible and impossible, and she just has to make it. Survival calculations become more urgent than rightness.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
“My grandmother was a girl when they planted those trees. None of the adults there that day lived to see them grow to full height. People were wiser back then, and less selfish. The understood that they were part of a line, not the beginning, middle, and end of it.”
― Homecoming
― Homecoming
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Joyce’s 2025 Year in Books
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