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“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“Can you passionately search for having fun without losing the lustre of spontaneity?”
― Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

“It’s much easier to seem silly and light than to be the sum of your experiences.”
― Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

“When I was twenty-seven, my Sleep stepped out of me like a passenger from a train carriage, looked around my room for several seconds, then sat down in the chair beside my bed.”
― Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

“I came here because I wanted to be reborn, but I just carried on living.”
― Luiza Sauma, Everything You Ever Wanted

“Extrapolating this into the realm of strangers, I worry that if we let our real-life interactions be corralled by our filter bubbles and branded identities, we are also running the risk of never being surprised, challenged, or changed—never seeing anything outside of ourselves, including our own privilege.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“Sometimes, when he is holding me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real after this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached out and touched a burning star, and it is both endurable and terrifying.”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

“What if I dissected my feelings, pulled them apart and brutalized them so that he would know they were true? Is this enough? I'd ask. How about this? They would explode and drip over everything like bodily fluids and finally he'd be forced to look away.”
― Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

“It could be that any brilliant woman who settles down with a less-brilliant man dulls herself to compensate and console.”
― Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, The Centre

“In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches