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“this: sometimes the waves knock you down and it seems like you won’t have the strength to push back up, but you do, because whatever the water takes down, it gives back. But you have to adapt or die. Now, go swim.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Now, as then, I don’t know if I fully understand what happens in the novel, but I loved it anyway. Isn’t that strange? To love something you can’t fully grasp?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“That your whole life, it seems like no one ever really sees you, they just see what they want to see, what they need to see. They never see the holes inside you.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“A smart person once told me that life is working against us all the time, inside and outside us, in a thousand different and silent ways that are invisible to us, and there is nothing we can do about it. You just have to do the best you can and go on, and hope for the best.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now