Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to be there. I might as well have been at one place all my life.

Hannah Kent
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  1. Some folks are forced to the edges by their difference. (...) But 'tis at the edges that they find their power.
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  3. Believe me, Nóra. An old broom knows the dirty corners best
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