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“But I wasn’t crying because I was sad. I guess I was crying because we had nowhere else to go, no choice but to go on living in this world. Crying because we had no other world to choose, and crying at everything before us, everything around us.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

“She had indeed seen death and she was not afraid of it. What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“We are two parts of a song. He is the music. I am the words.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“It's crazy how lonely it is to be in a family.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk