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The Double Bind
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"The Double Bind" Quotes

A young woman working with the homeless becomes obsessed with a collection of haunting photographs and discovers a disturbing connection to a famous author.

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We are, all of us, marked by the past.

Chris Bohjalian

pastidentity

I think that it's the possibility of friendship, unanticipated and unlikely, that makes life so worthwhile.

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We are more than the sum of our circumstances.

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Sometimes, in order to find yourself, you need to get a little lost.

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The future is something that, perhaps, cannot be betrayed, but can be made irrelevant.

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There is love, and there is love. There is the love of a mother for her child, and there is the love of a woman for a man.

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What we do with our lives is the external measure of who we are on the inside.

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The truth is, we are all one crisis away from needing to rely on the kindness of strangers.

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We are haunted by the dead. We are haunted by our history.

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There is no such thing as nothing. There is no such thing as nowhere.

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