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“What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet. You can wash it, and wash it, and still never forget what transpired, a word which here means ‘happened and made everybody sad.'” -Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid

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“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so they can feel this way, too.” – Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid

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