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“Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.”
― Don DeLillo, Conversations with Don Delillo

“He wanted to fuck her loudly on a hard bed with rain beating on the windows.”
― Don DeLillo, Mao II

“The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.”
― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

“American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.”
― Don DeLillo

“Make Kin Not Babies.”
― Donna J. Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

“I resist being called the "mom" to my dogs because I fear infantilization of the adult canines and misidentification of the important fact that I wanted dogs, not babies. My multi-species family is not about surrogacy and substitutes; we are trying to live other tropes, other metaplasms.”
― Donna Haraway, Manifeste des espèces compagnes: Chiens, humains et autres partenaires

“They gave me a name and alienated me from myself.”
― Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

“Obsessed with the desire to be happy I lost my life. I moved with the tension of a bow and arrow in an unreality of desires.”
― Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

“When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as
the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet