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“Grief is a swallow,” he said. “One day you wake up and you think it's gone, but it's only migrated to some other place, warming its feathers. Sooner or later, it will return and perch in your heart again.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

“What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Remember: the rules, like streets, can only take you to known places. Underneath the grid is a field - it was always there - where to be lost is never to be wrong, but simply more.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“He said that he’d read everything about swimming, firmly believing he could trip across words, like stepping-stones, to the bank of experience”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man