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“For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?”
― Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

“We only value ourselves as others value us, for it might be said that we hold ourselves in trust for others.”
― Charles Palliser, The Unburied

“It is a shame that we so quickly lose that ability to believe in things; it limits the opportunities we have to transform ourselves, to save ourselves, for it puts the awful burden of transforming and saving ourselves on ourselves. Once you stop believing, you cannot pray, or make sacrifices or pilgrimages, or light candles. You are stuck with yourself, in a world without miracles.”
― Peter Cameron, Andorra

“It felt like sadness was like radiation, like the amount of time between exposures was irrelevant, like you got a badge that eventually got filled up from a lifetime of it, and then it just killed you.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk