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We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

Carol Shields
Hands, Knowing, Want
Carol Shields (2001). “Dressing Up for the Carnival”, p.22, Penguin
We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.