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“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.”
― Shirley Jackson

“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

“Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty .”
― Leonard Cohen

“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”
― Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game

“The thing about writing is I can't tell if it's healing or destroying.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“we have been taught to fear the very things that have the potential to set us free”
― Alok Vaid-Menon

“Poetry is a useful place for lamentation...poems are a place where we can cry out.”
― bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place