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“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

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

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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