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“He scrounged for something to say, and found a meagre offering: “I did love you.”
But I loved him more.
He couldn’t bring that to life, not aloud, not with his own mouth.”
― Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

“I'm not a pipe dream. I'm not going anywhere.”
― Nora Sakavic, The King's Men

“Grief suffocated. Grief paralysed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“You gave me a key and called it home.”
― Nora Sakavic, The King's Men