The Garden

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“The best way I can describe it is that, for as far back as I can remember, the air in the house has felt like a held breath.”

- Jenette McCurdy, I’m Glad My Mom Died

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“We have to dance to show god that we are grateful to be alive.”

- Jojo Rabbit

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“The world moves for love; it kneels before it in awe.”

- Edward Walker

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“And as a young man, blessed to pass so many road signs And have my foreign ear made fresh again on each unlikely sound”

- Hozier, Butchered Tongues

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“Once I had wondered what was holdin' up the ground

But I can see that all along, love, it was you all the way down.”

- Hozier, I, Carrion (Icarian)

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“If I was empty space, and you were a formless shape, we'd fit.”

- Noah Kahan, Strawberry Wine

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“You may never know your fortune

Until the distance has been shown

between what is lost forever

And what can still be known”

-Hozier, Butchered Tongues

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“So far from home to have a stranger call you, "Darling" And have your guarded heart be lifted like a child up by the hand”

-Hozier, Butchered Tongues

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“When I choose to see the good side of things, I’m not being naive. It is strategic and necessary. It’s how I’ve learned to survive through everything.

The only thing I do know, is that we have to be kind.”

-Everything Everywhere All At Once

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“The world is so fascinating because every day, in every moment, someone out there is the happiest they’ve ever been, while someone else is at their lowest imaginable moment. Life is so strange. It is not just the highs and the lows, but all of it happening all at once, bumping into and dancing with each other.”

-Reflection on life, by me

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“"I reject the notion that individualism and apathy is the way forward. The only way to make meaningful change IS solidarity with ALL marginalized communities.”

- Commenter

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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognising this may be incapable of morality”

- James Baldwin

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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

- George Orwell 1984

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“Honesty without compassion is cruelty.”

- Unknown

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“There was once a very great American surgeon named Halsted. He was married to a nurse. He loved her-immeasurably. One day Halsted noticed that his wife's hands were chapped and red when she came back from surgery. And so he invented rubber gloves. For her. It is one of the great love stories in medicine. The difference between inspired medicine and uninspired medicine is love.

When I met Ana I knew:

I loved her to the point of invention.”

- Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House

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“Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.”

- Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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“One of the greatest tragedies of life is that you will always be loved more than you know.”

- Alan Watts