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“The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must me my fault.
So I said, "Isn't it awful about the Rosenbergs?"
The Rosenbergs were to be electrocuted late that night.
"Yes!" Hilda said, and at last I felt I had touched a human string in the cat's cradle of her heart. It was only as the two of us waited for the others in that tomb-like morning gloom of the conference room that Hilda amplified that Yes of hers.
"It's awful such people should be alive."
She yawned then, and her pale orange mouth opened on a large darkness. Fascinated, I stared at the blind cave behind her face until the two lips met and moved and the dybbuk spoke out of its hiding place, "I'm so glad they're going to die.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby