“Thats the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.”

—  Lisa Alther

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“All the people who pretend to take your own concerns out of your own hands and to do everything for you, I won't say they are imposters; I won't even say they are quacks; but I do say they are mistaken people.”

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