Enough Quote by Anne Michaels

“Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.”

Anne Michaels

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To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

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Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

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