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Megan McCarroll

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“The brutal afternoon workouts left him exhausted and sore but feeling cleansed, as if someone had scrubbed out his soul with a stiff wire brush.”
― Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

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“It’s not a question of whether you will hurt, or of how much you will hurt; it’s a question of what you will do, and how well you will do it, while pain has her wanton way with you.”
― Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

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“Remember parts of your body are scattered in water all over the earth. Know land is made from you.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

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“I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.”
― Jane Wilson-Howarth, Snowfed Waters

tags: deceit, love, nepal, nepali

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“But more often there are regular people in the pool. Beautiful women seniors doing water aerobics - mothers and grandmothers and great grandmothers - their massive breasts and guts reminding you how it is that women carry worlds. When I swim by them I watch their legs and bodies underwater, and feel a strange kinship with a maternal lineage.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

tags: women

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