“I couldn't help it. I tried to keep it down but it just flooded through all my quiet spaces. It was a message more than a feeling, a message that tolled like a bell: change, change, change.”

—  Junot Díaz , book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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