Literature usually
gives us a story
and sometimes gives us
a moral, but
life mostly gives us the
opposite;
not a plot but a lot
of set pieces;
not happily ever after, but
happy, occasionally,
in the middle.
If there is no overarching narrative,
if life has ups and downs but no
denouement, an ending
but no conclusion, then
all we get from it
is whatever we love enough
to save.
-- Kathryn Schulz
(arranged quote)
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