I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

—Joanne Harris in Five Quarters of the Orange

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About Joanne Harris

Portrait of Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris (born 3 July 1964) is a British author, best known for her 1999 novel Chocolat, which was adapted into a film of the same name. Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, of a French mother and a British father, she was a teacher of French for 15 years and had...

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One mistake can change the course of your life. You can never return to your original path or go back to the person you were.

—Lisa See in The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

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If you set the person free, but they come back to you, well, that's love.

—Avery Williams in The Impossibility of Tomorrow

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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

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We must return to nature and nature's god.

—Luther Burbank

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