“See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be”

— Joyce Carol Oates , book After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away

Source: After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away

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