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“To be with her is a sin, to be without her is a tragedy.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“If the mortal sin of the suicide is greed, to hoard stillness and calm for yourself while dispersing your riotous internal pain among all those who survive you, then the mortal sin of the martyr must be pride, the vanity, the hubris to believe not only that your death could mean more than your living, but that your death could mean more than death itself—which, because it is inevitable, means nothing.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“I was a boy, which meant I was a murderer of my childhood.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“Why, he wondered, did white people get so very upset when anyone disagreed with them?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel