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“What else could I do? You could try again.”
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“What else could I do? You could try again.”
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“I WANTED TO BE LOVED SO DESPERATELY THAT MY FINGERS SHOOK WITH IT I AM NOT BEAUTIFUL BUT I COULD BE”
— Emily Palermo, What I Could Never Confess Without Some Bravado, published in Rising Phoenix Review
“We are unusual and tragic and alive.”
— Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
“Children not loved for who they are do not learn how to love themselves. Their growth is an exercise in pleasing others, not in expanding through experience. As adults, they must learn to nurture their own lost child.”
—
Marion Woodman
“Her blood is dancing, she wants to live, and there is no life here.”
— Anton Chekhov, from The Complete Stories; “In Exile,”
“How to care for the injured body, the kind of body that can’t hold the content it is living?”
— Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
“And anyway I was so full of energy. I was always running around, looking at this and that. If I stopped the pain was unbearable. If I stopped and thought, maybe the world can’t be saved, the pain was unbearable.”
— Mary Oliver, The Moths
“I’m unexpectedly fragmentary. I’m little by little. My story is to live. And I’m not afraid of failure. Let failure annihilate me.”
— Clarice Lispector, from The Stream of Life
“When you see these horrible images why do / you stay with them? / Why keep watching? Why not / go away? I was amazed. / Go away where? I said.”
— Anne Carson, from The Glass Essay
