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“If love and comfort are combined to mean a sort of ring of safety, then anything that endangers that safety, like a sister or brother or parents all dressed up to go out and leave us all alone, will clot our innocent, childish, valentine natures with murderous rages.”
― Eve Babitz, Black Swans: Stories

“This moment, split open like an oyster, warm bring flowing out, tastes joyous.”
― Dylin Hardcastle, A Language of Limbs

“And fiction got through to me where facts had feared to tread.”
― Eve Babitz, Black Swans: Stories

“In this way my love for him mirrored my mother's love for my father, which, despite their separation, had endured--call it habit, call it time, call it memory, the memory of love. It's not so easy, after wall, to cut that invisible thread.”
― Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt