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“Sometimes it takes strength to choose the path of weakness,” the woman said cryptically. “Sometimes surrender is more courageous than resistance. But it’s hard for people to see that.”
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Ottessa Moshfegh
“It’s easy to tell the dirtiest minds—look for the cleanest fingernails.”
Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

Raymond Carver
“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
Raymond Carver

Ottessa Moshfegh
“I've lived with many alcoholic men over the years, and each has taught me that it is useless to worry, fruitless to ask why, suicide to try to help them. They are who they are for better and worse.”
Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

Terese Marie Mailhot
“Nothing is too ugly for this world, I think. It’s just that people pretend not to see.”
Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

Michael Pollan
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

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