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“I discover that grief means living with someone who is no longer there.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

“Sometimes Marisa pretended she needed the toilet when she didn’t. But she didn’t feel guilty about it: the secret of strength wasn’t perseverance, it was pacing. You had to know your limits and you had to respect them. She didn’t ask her body to go beyond what it could do, why should she treat her mind with less respect?”
― N.J. Lysk, Betas Aside

“But, in the end, there was the only thing that meant I could live with myself after what had happened with Devlin: you had to trust the other person to tell you what they wanted. You had to give them the right to fuck up. Without that, they might be happier with the situation, but you weren’t treating them like a person. People asked for things when they weren’t sure, or even when they didn’t want them, they made sacrifices and they compromised. It was a choice, and they had to have the freedom to make it. Even if the only way they could have it was because you gave them that freedom. Because you were willing to believe they were capable of deciding.”
― N.J. Lysk, Alphas Alone

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

That is why we invent stories, I said.

And what if we are the story we invent? said Shelley.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story