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As you make your way through the world, you will feel bewildered, appalled, and charmed by other people. In the real version of all our days, as opposed to the version we publicly present, there are many undignified moments. The circumstances that emotionally overwhelm you and the circumstances that emotionally overwhelm someone else might not overlap in the slightest. In situations that make you nervous, do your best and proceed; others before you have also been nervous.
Giraffe & Flamingo
Curtis Sittenfeld
“It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.”
A Wind in the Door
Madeleine L'Engle
Innocence is not the prerogative of infants and puppies, and far less of mountains and fixed stars, which have no prerogatives at all. It is not lost to us; the world is a better place than that. Like any other of the spirit’s good gifts, it is there if you want it, free for the asking, as has been stressed by stronger words than mine. It is possible to pursue innocence as hounds pursue hares: singlemindedly, driven by a kind of love, crashing over creeks, keening and lost in fields and forests, circling, vaulting over hedges and hills wide-eyed, giving loud tongue all unawares to the deepest, most incomprehensible longing, a root-flame in the heart, and that warbling chorus resounding back from the mountains, hurling itself from ridge to ridge over the valley, now faint, now clear, ringing the air through which the hounds tear, open-mouthed, the echoes of their own wails dimly knocking in their lungs.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
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