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“You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really do. But just remember that some people in this world are older versions of those same kids we cry for.” ― Ashly Lorenzana

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But one day she carefully takes a snowflake onto her fingertip and looks at it under the sun. It is a miracle, exceptionally large, almost the size of a small coin like a grosz. Its crystal beauty disappears in a flash, a beauty not of this world, and thus destroyed by human warmth. But thanks to this one brief instant, it is possible to glimpse that other, higher world, to reassure yourself that it is there.

Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob, tr. Jennifer Croft

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Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: Rosary; from ‘Helplessly, my eyes ask mercy…’, tr. Judith Hemschemeyer

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She speaks / longingly / of death.

Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera; from ‘Lines’

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If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

Margaret Atwood, from 'The Blind Assassin'

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Christa Wolf, from "they divided the sky: a novel"

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