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“It's not so unusual to be unwittingly responsible for someone's destruction. Many of us have been, many of us will be, from the dawn of history until the end of time. And if we stand back and consider our individual lives from light-years away, we may find all this savagery has meaning and a purpose.”
― Anne Serre

“Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“Cunt", he said.

Although he couldn't accurately attach this word to what she was, it was something he could say, something he could call her.”
― Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day

“If I wasn't the man I imagined myself to be in the eyes of others, then who was I?”
― Luigi Pirandello, One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand