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As she began to type, “Enormous fatberg made of grease, wet wipes, and condoms is terrorizing London’s sewers,” her hands began to waver in their outlines and she had to rock the crown of her head against the cool wall, back and forth, back ...more
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Gwendolyn Brooks
“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”
Gwendolyn Brooks

Dorothy Day
“The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.”
Dorothy Day

Margaret Renkl
“In the fairy tale we tell ourselves, darkness holds nothing resembling a gift. What we feel always contains its own truth, but it is not the only truth, and darkness almost always harbors some bit of goodness tucked out of sight, waiting for an unexpected light to shine, to reveal it in its deepest hiding place.”
Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

Lemony Snicket
“There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.”
Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

Julian of Norwich
“See that I am God. See that I am in everything. See that I do everything. See that I have never stopped ordering my works, nor ever shall, eternally. See that I lead everything on to the conclusion I ordained for it before time began, by the same power, wisdom and love with which I made it. How can anything be amiss?”
Julian of Norwich

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