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The Switch

by Beth O'Leary (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 17, 2026 07:12AM

“Hell is a state of mind - ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind - is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

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“Before that she hadn’t realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

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“Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

tags: environmental-degradation, parenting

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“Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it.” A”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Welcome to the Monkey House

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“Here's the vital core of Winnicott's theory:
The subject must destroy the object. And the object must survive this destruction. If the object doesn't survive, it will remain internal, a projection of the subject's self. If the object survives destruction, the subject can see it as separate.”
― Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

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