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• The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
• Whatever you say, say nothing.
• It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
• Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them.…
• Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years
• I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared…
• The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
• One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.
• Life must pass through difficulty in order to achieve any modicum of beauty.
• Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it.…
• I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure…
• Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.

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