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"He doesn’t want depth, Juliet, and he doesn’t need it. Not everyone does. There are people who skim the surface their entire lives. But you’re not one of them. That’s why you write a bittersweet song that’s full of fucking layers and he comes away with one word—sad, and Donna would use the same word. It doesn’t mean they’d be right, and that’s why you’ve got to stop listening to them."

– "The Summer We Fell", by Elizabeth O'Roark (2023)

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“This is my passion,” Raven confides, continuing when I don’t shut her down, “It’s not an interest or a job that pays well. It’s honestly not even about the money. The dollars kind of become meaningless when you focus on the percentages up or down, the points here, the gains there. It’s not a game, and I certainly don’t treat it as such when I’m handling people’s livelihoods, but it’s the power of beating… myself. It’s what I obsess over, what I look at before bed and the first thing I check when I wake up. I love the industry, the fight of it, the grueling gives and takes. I’m prepared for all of it.”

– "It's Just Business", by Lauren Landish & Willow Winters (2024)