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"You have remained with me even in the missing of you."

Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals by Agha Shahid Ali

"...the music can be wandering along for a while and find yourself drifting, the mind is drifting, you're almost not aware of hearing anything, perhaps you've even forgotten you were listening to music in the first place, and then all of a sudden the music does something: it asserts its presence and opens up to take you in and it feels like the pilot has moved the throttle and you feel motion again and the plane's going down now, you're definitely going down, and the sun is going down..."

W.W. Norton

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[sic]: A Memoir by Joshua Cody

"What a waste, what a crime, to wreck a world so abundantly full of different kinds of flowers."

W.W. Norton

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Crudo by Olivia Laing

"...only 18.2 percent resulted in a live birth. Regardless the age of the patient, regardless the exact variant of treatment, most cycles failed...It's an industry predicated on failure."

Avalanche Julia Leigh W.W. Norton

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Avalanche by Julia Leigh

"One must seek nourishment in that emptiness, which, thought of another way, is a vastness. As one moves more deeply inside it, be kind to those left behind."

Rachel Corbett W.W. Norton You Must Change Your Life