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

tags: love

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“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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“They were keeping me alive in the sweetest way they knew how, you see.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

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“As a grown woman, I would have said to my father that there are true things in this world observed only by a single set of eyes.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

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“...We humans are reckless with our bodies, reckless with our lives, for no other reason than that we want to know what would happen, what it might feel like to brush up against death, to run right up to the edge of our lives, which is, in some ways, to live fully.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

tags: transcendent-kingdom, yaa-gyasi

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