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“The most complicated relationship you will ever have is the one with yourself. We are our own greatest mystery, our own biggest challenge. Life isn't a quest to find ourselves, it's a quest to define ourselves.”
― Jewel E. Ann, Before Us

“But it's lonely. Regardless of the fact that I've been on my own most of my life, there is something about being physically near someone but unable to connect that is more isolating than actually being alone.”
― Emmerson Hoyt, September Doves

“She's a total enigma, and instead of trying to solve the puzzle that is her, people just go along with her scattered pieces, calling it art.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“Portugal. That's where I'd heard the word saudade before. It wasn't really translatable. A kind of longing, a nostalgia, a sense of incompleteness, not just romantic but existential, rooted in the very fabric of our people. (...) Portuguese was the language of melancholic dreamers, of lonely poets.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates