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“Catharsis makes me free, for I do not prefer to be a prisoner.”

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“I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?”

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“What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can it be that that is our sanctuary, our refuge, our way to liberty?”

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“Remember, Lily, that's the worst thing about poverty! Not hunger or leaky boots, but the way it drains out your spirit! However things turn out, you must never let that happen to you. Promise me!" (Mother)”

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Book:The Peppermint Pig

Source: The Peppermint Pig

“He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.”

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“Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.”

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“Even in death, her mother was winning.”

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“She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible threat.....The counselor couldn't prove otherwise.”

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“He thought he vomited out his soul. If ghosts were made of ectoplasm and ghosts were basically souls without bodies, then it was perfectly logical that the green mess all over the ground was his ectoplasmic essence.”

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Book:Accumulation

Source: Accumulation

“Hate can burn itself out in the first light of day as readily as love can.”

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Book:Warlock

Source: Warlock

“A friend of mine who is working on a memoir says, I hate the idea of writing as some kind of catharsis, because it seems like that can't possibly produce a good book. You cannot hope to console yourself for your grief by writing, warns Natalia Ginzburg. Turn then to Isak Dinesen, who believed that you could make any sorrow bearable by putting it into a story or telling a story about it.”

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Book:The Friend

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