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“Suicide is a war of two fears—fear of death and fear of the thing that pushes you toward it. The stronger side always wins. And if you lose, the penalty is death.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Darling Venom

“This is the burden we all have to bear, to live a useful life,”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Gravel Heart

“I remember my childhood as a long wish to be elsewhere.”
― Louise Gluck

“And what shall we make ourselves from today? A memory, a seedling, a word? What can we hold up to the light and find despair has not yet touched?”
― Heather Christle, The Crying Book