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“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through. Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximising scant resources, carrying out acts of brutal efficiency and vanishing from sight; but that’s where the transformation occurs. Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible.”

– Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

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House Beautiful: Decorating Style, 1992

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“Still, I am very lonely… sometimes it shows up like a continent shifting into my chest. I’m so tired of being empty. I turned it inside out and wore it like a glove, smeared it on the walls until my house shouted empty, empty, empty. I didn’t know what to do with it afterward. All I know is that it hurts to be in the spaces between freedom.”

— Akwaeke Emezi, from Freshwater

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"Early Hours" Sally Strand // "Everything I Never Told You" Celeste Ng

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“They had been married seven months. They said nothing of any importance. They washed up the dishes and went to bed. In bed, they made love. Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. When it was made, they lay in each other’s arms, holding love, asleep.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

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Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“We are never afraid of what we truly know. We are only afraid before we know it. But to know for certain costs us dearly. It costs us blood and tears, but it’s worth the price.”

— Stig Dagerman, A Moth to a Flame (Burnt Child), tr. Benjamin Mier-Cruz