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“If I was a boy, we'd run away together, and have a capital time; but as I'm a miserable girl, I must be proper, and stop at home. Don't tempt me, Teddy, it's a crazy plan.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“It's just strange," he agrees, staring out the window, lost. "One day someone's walking around, going to work, alive, and then..." Kimball stops, fails to complete the sentence.
"Nothing," I sigh, nodding.
“People just... disappear," he says.
"The earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, somewhat sadly, checking my Rolex.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“It is autumn in Moomin Valley, for how else can spring come back again?”
― Tove Jansson, Finn Family Moomintroll

“To Evelyn our relationship is yellow and blue, but to me it’s a gray place, most of it blacked out, bombed, footage from the film in my head is endless shots of stone and any language heard is utterly foreign, the sound flickering away over new images: blood pouring from automated tellers, women giving birth through their assholes, embryos frozen or scrambled (which is it?), nuclear warheads, billions of dollars, the total destruction of the world, someone gets beaten up, someone else dies, sometimes bloodlessly, more often mostly by rifle shot, assassinations, comas, life played out as a sitcom, a blank canvas that reconfigures itself into a soap opera. It’s an isolation ward that serves only to expose my own severely impaired capacity to feel. I am at its center, out of season, and no one ever asks me for any identification.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho