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“Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.”
― Dr. Asa Don Brown

“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.”
― Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

“Winds shake the leaves and for a moment I smell smoke. I concentrate on the scent, but it vanishes into the aroma of rain and tree bark, the way one life can collapse into another and different people can stir within the same body, like bats thrashing inside a secret hollow.”
― Laura van den Berg, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men