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This defines the war within me to a tea.

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“Breathe. You’re going to be okay. Breathe and remember that you’ve been in this place before. You’ve been this uncomfortable and anxious and scared, and you’ve survived. Breathe and know that you can survive this too. These feelings can’t break you. They’re painful and debilitating, but you can sit with them and eventually, they will pass. Maybe not immediately, but sometime soon, they are going to fade and when they do, you’ll look back at this moment and laugh for having doubted your resilience. I know it feels unbearable right now, but keep breathing, again and again. This will pass. I promise it will pass.”

— Daniell Koepke

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Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

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“Stop thinking so much. You’re breaking your own heart.”

— Unknown

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Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

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“You’re so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.”

— Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring

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Natalie Haynes, from 'Stone Blind'

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Charles Bukowski, "hurry slowly," from Come On In!

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“We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us.”

— Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Bloom

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Mary Oliver, from “We Should Be Well Prepared”, Red Bird

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Edward Sackville-West

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Carrie Fountain, from "Late Spring in the Mesilla Valley", Burn Lake

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“..and now that my hatred is gone, I'm—I’m empty. I survived until now, with just my hatred. I don't know anything outside of the battlefield.”

— Thorfinn, Vinland Saga (s2,e8)

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An unfinished feeling.

Sylvia Plath, from ‘The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath’ ⁠— Appendix 15: ‘Rose & Percy Key (68)’

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— Adrienne Rich, from “Integrity.”