Encountering this quote from Don Quixote (in the form of an epigraph to Niall Williams novel This is Happiness) was a balm to my spirit.
Maybe it will act as a balm to yours, too.

“All these squalls to which we have been subjected are signs that the weather will soon improve and things will go well for us, because it is not possible for the bad or the good to endure forever, and from this it follows that since the bad has lasted so long, the good is close at hand.”
–Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

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