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To Paradise

by Hanya Yanagihara (Goodreads Author)

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“but most of all I hated the smallness of life here, and how even though it was so small, I was unable to solve the mystery whose central question I could still not determine.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees

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“Age, then, is not something that can be understood; it is a preoccupation of the old, and the old is anyone older than oneself.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees

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“That was the thing about death. Only the specifics of it hurt. Death, in a general sense, was background noise. She stood in the silence of it.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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“Pain is not the only touchstone for growth, I said to myself.”
― Otessa Moshfegh

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“At times a person will make eye contact with Marianne, a bus conductor or someone looking for change, and she’ll be shocked briefly into the realisation that this is in fact her life, that she is actually visible to other people. This feeling opens her to certain longings: hunger and thirst, a desire to speak Swedish, a physical desire to swim or dance.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

tags: depression, longings

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