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“Sometimes a mind is ready to leave the world before its body”
― Kaveh Akbar, Calling a Wolf a Wolf

“God what a night. I was so glad you were home, standing up in all that wind while everyone else was blowing across the streets like tumbleweeds. I wonder if you wish you hadn't been there, with the future looming up in such utter chaos before us. And meanwhile, the night was old and you were beautiful.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“We were hot, the sea was one long wave to be ridden in, our skins were dark, and time even stopped now and then and let things shimmer since time, too, is affected by beauty and will stop sometimes for a moment.”
― Eve Babitz, Eve's Hollywood

“How did people go on with their lives as though death weren't all around them?”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands