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“I used to hope, I typed once, that I’d die before my partner, even though I knew that was selfish. I used to think that I hoped I’d die before she died and before the planet died and really just generally before things got any worse.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“This life needed only one of us to live. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now.
My life means yours is impossible.
Only in the gap between darkness and light, only in that blue-tinged breach, do we manage to make out each other’s faces.”
― Han Kang, The White Book

“But isn’t humor a different kind of repression?”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“Jupiter. I promise I'll always know where you are.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Orbiting Jupiter