"And I’ve been a huge reader all my life, and the reason that I love reading the way I do is because of those moments where the author expresses something that you deeply know to be true, and you’ve never heard it articulated before, and that they’re telling the truth of what it’s like to be alive."

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"I’ve come to believe through this quest that I went on to understand the nature of bittersweetness is, we are creatures who are born to transform pain into beauty."
-Susan Cain, author of Bittersweet on Unlocking Us podcast, March 23, 2022