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“And I would discover how much of life is defined by what you want to keep and what you are forced to lose.”

– Christina Henriquiez “The Wide, Pale Ocean” in Come Together, Fall Apart

“I tried to tell her how if you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other, and how if you could accept the past you might hope for the future, for only out of the past can you make the future.”

– Robert Penn Warren All the King's Men