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“They try to fight the waves, but they can’t fight the moon. They can’t fight the world’s rotation or the bathymetry of oceans or the inevitability that sometimes things just don’t work out.”
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“a lot of times
we are angry at other people
for not doing what
we should have done for ourselves
- responsibility”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
we are angry at other people
for not doing what
we should have done for ourselves
- responsibility”
― The Sun and Her Flowers

“Watch carefully
the magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
to just be themselves.”
― Love Her Wild
the magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
to just be themselves.”
― Love Her Wild

“Everything will be destroyed no matter how hard we work to create it. The idea terrifies me. I want tiny permanents. I want gigantic permanents! I want what I think and who I am captured in an anthology of indulgence I can comfortingly tuck into a shelf in some labyrinthine library.”
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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