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“I let her do whatever she wanted to do to me that day in the cabin. It wasn't painful, nor was it terrifying, but it was disgusting--just as I'd always hoped it to be.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“No one's despair is like my despair--”
― Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

“Love has never been a popular movement. And no one's ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you've got to remember is what you're looking at is also you. Everyone you're looking at is also you. You could be that person. You could be that monster, you could be that cop. And you have to decide, in yourself, not to be.”
― James Baldwin

“It is terrible to be alone.
I don't mean to live alone---
to be alone, where no one hears you.”
― Louise Glück, Averno