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“But to be drawn into Charlie’s world was to become part of a very deep and ongoing conversation, to be pulled along the currents of his innermost thoughts and conflicts, and to be attended to intimately in ways of the heart and mind—and soul, if I’m honest. I had only to send or say three or four words to him for the faucet of his intimacy to turn on. He was right there, his rushing closeness right there. And then suddenly it was not.”
― Charmaine Craig, My Nemesis

“It never really goes away, the longing for the life not lived, because isn’t that part of how we come to know ourselves too? Through what we lack as much as what we have, all we dream but do not hold. Some desires have no resolution.”
― Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

“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

“At its peak my obsession with her was like a form of self-harm: a private source of pain and comfort.”
― Kiare Ladner, Nightshift