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“I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother

“One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing that the feelings I had were possible to have; and then one day I was not living like that at all. I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets drawn for you; either way, there it is, your past, a collection of people you used to be and things you used to do. Your past is the person you no longer are, the situations you are no longer in.”
― Jamaica Kincaid

“We must not cower in the dark because we’re afraid of the spark within us. The answer is not to put out the spark, but to learn to control it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward