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“And now-now all I can do is light a cigarette and go home. My God, I just remembered that we die. But-but me too?! Don't forge that for now it's strawberry season. Yes.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“He refuses, he is in the stairwell, he disappears”
― Anne Carson, Nox

“Nona asked if Harrowhark Nonagesimus had been a Distraction in life, and Cam said it always was the quiet ones.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“Camilla and Palamedes were loved by Nona, said Paul. Pyrrha was loved by Nona. It’s finished, it’s done. You can’t take loved away.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth