"What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my work, but that I'd been home all along."

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“Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and other curious nooks and crannies of ancient worlds and modern times.”
“Animals are our inferior brothers and sisters. They are not meant to be eaten, but must be treated with love.”
“Iâ€™d had three great pregnancies. I thought morning sickness was the end of the world, and itâ€™s not until something pretty major happens that youâ€™re like, oh my gosh those were all a piece of cake. I had a pretty large bleed. I thought I was having a miscarriage.”
“I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.”
“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.”
“Living ain't easy, loving's twice as tough.”
“When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned.”
“I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different facts, same emotions.”

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