"That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all."

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She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been writing about for hundreds of years, but she also knew, from those same books, that there were people who never recover form it, ones who go on through life beset by a dim and painful longing.

— Sarah Dunn