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"What good is being in love with a person, if it only binds you to a thousand quiet disappointments, and new problems for every one that you fix?"

— Ali Shaw The Trees (2016)

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"Anything you do a lot of, you get good at."

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"Work out what you really want from life."

The Trees (2016)

The rain watered the world so heavily that he wondered if it might rinse it away. He did not think he would mind if it did.

The Trees (2016)

"Look at you. Your folded arms. Your smug sneer. How do men like you get put in charge of the world, when you don't know the first thing about it?"

The Trees (2016)

"Things die," said Leonard. "Deal with it."

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
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