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“He was a pile of American garbage and she feared she would love him forever.”
― Patrick deWitt, French Exit

“I understood that knowledge was a dwarfing, obliterating, all-consuming thing, and to have it was to both be grateful and to suffer greatly.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“So now we're here and we are not dead, and Mom, what's more punk rock than living despite all that which has tried to make you not?”
― Neil Hilborn

“He is not a bad man, and that, I realize suddenly, is the root of my hurt.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“Separation

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
― W.S. Merwin

“Kafka calls it the Indestructible—the thing at the bottom of each individual that keeps going whether they feel like going or not.”
― Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

“There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.”
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

“It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

“We’re all just trying to be comfortable, and well fed, and unafraid.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“When I met someone I liked, I wanted all of them, and fast.”
― Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

“If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.”
― Fernando Pessoa , The Book of Disquiet

“Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

“With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

“John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

“he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Maybe I was just terrified that I might be the closest thing she had to leaving a piece of herself behind.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“I was a coward. I went to the war.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“what would be left of love without truth stretched beyond its limits”
― Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Stay with Me