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title: "2 Bursts Friendly Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-strout/olive-s-private-view-is-that-life-depends-on-what-she-thinks-of-as/)

[Elizabeth Strout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-strout/)

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> [“life depends on what she thinks of as ‘big bursts’ and ‘little bursts.’ Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/life-depends-on-what-she-thinks-of-as-big-bursts-and-little-bursts/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

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