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“And isn’t death just the apocalypse in the first person?”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Natürlich hatte ich sie schon öfter gesehen, sogar hier auf dem Friedhof, doch erst seit kurzem nahm ich sie richtig wahr. Wie ein Wort, das man neu gelernt hatte und das prompt überall auftauchte.”
― Benedict Wells, Hard Land