Jean Hegland quotes
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“This body is yours. No one can ever take it from you, if only you will accept yourself, claim it again--your arms, your spine, your ribs, the small of your back. It's all yours. All this bounty, all this beauty, all this strength and grace is yours. This garden is yours. Take it back. Take it back.”
-- Jean HeglandSource : Jean Hegland (2016). “Into The Forest”, p.146, Random House
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“It's a physical urge, huger and stronger than thirst or sex. Halfway back on the left side of my head there is a spot that yearns, that longs, that pleads for the jolt of a bullet. I want that rage, that fire, that final empty rip. I want to be let out of this dark cavern, to open myself up to the ease of not-living. I am tired of sorrow and struggle and worry. ... I want to turn out the last light.”
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“I never knew how much we consumed. It seems as if we are all appetite, as if a human being is simply a bundle of needs to drain the world. It’s no wonder there are wars, no wonder the earth and water and air are polluted. It’s no wonder the economy collapsed, if Eva and I use so much merely to stay alive.”
-- Jean HeglandSource : Jean Hegland (2016). “Into The Forest”, p.124, Random House
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“Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!”
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Source : Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.216, Oxford University Press, USA
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“Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.”
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“I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.”
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Source : Hisham Matar (2011). “Anatomy of a Disappearance”, p.13, Penguin UK
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“Lina loved her little sister so much that it was like an ache under her ribs.”
Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2016). “The City of Ember Complete Series”, p.29, Random House Books for Young Readers
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