"Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us."

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But what could you do? Only keep going. People kept going; they had been doing it for thousands of years. You took the kindness offered, letting it seep as far in as it could go, and the remaining dark crevices you carried around with you, knowing that over time they might change into something almost bearable.

— Elizabeth Strout