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“We aren't here to eat, we are being eaten.
Come, pretty girl. Let us devour our lives.”
― When My Brother Was an Aztec
Come, pretty girl. Let us devour our lives.”
― When My Brother Was an Aztec
“Sorrow is food swallowed too quickly, caught in the throat, making it nearly impossible to breathe.”
― Sing, Unburied, Sing
― Sing, Unburied, Sing
“And don’t make the mistake of calling us resilient. To not have been destroyed, to not have given up, to have survived, is no badge of honor. Would you call an attempted murder victim resilient?”
― There There
― There There
“Real suffering isn’t just about physical pain, but about not knowing when the pain will end, not knowing what the point of it all is.”
― The Five Wounds
― The Five Wounds
“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
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