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“I'm too bright for this world, and I won't keep my mouth shut up about it; it's a disease for which there is no cure. So I must be locked up, where I can be safely irresponsible, where I can do no harm.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“I don't tell her again she couldn't have stopped it, that it wasn't her fault and that she didn't deserve it. I swallow those words instead. Maybe somewhere deeply in my belly, they'll take root and grow.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“I was, as we all are, a child of my environment.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

“You are more than a body and its accompanying grief.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House