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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.”
“It’s easy to tell the dirtiest minds—look for the cleanest fingernails.”
― Eileen
― Eileen
“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.”
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“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.”
― Eileen
― Eileen
“Nothing is too ugly for this world, I think. It’s just that people pretend not to see.”
― Heart Berries
― Heart Berries
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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