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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

“In a sense, my dear Peter, I mourned you only seven hours, but I may be going to mourn you all my life besides.”
― Ursula Parrott, Ex-Wife

“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