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“Women carried life and death in their stomachs when they conceived; it was a fact of life.”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“I wished for sadness: that was easy, and came with things past rather than uncertain things ahead.”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“And it was cowardly for a man to say he would kill himself, but Septimus had fought; he was brave; he was not Septimus now”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn