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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

“heal the roots, to see the tree grow vibrant.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“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

“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