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Emily Henry
“When I watch you sleep," he said shakily, "I feel overwhelmed that you exist.”
Emily Henry, Beach Read

Franz Kafka
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
Franz Kafka

Carmen Maria Machado
“I have heard all of the stories about girls like me, and I am unafraid to make more of them.”
Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties

Franz Kafka
“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

Kate Elizabeth Russell
“I wonder how much victimhood they’d be willing to grant a girl like me.”
Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

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