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“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”
― Richard Siken

“[Your little friends] aren't even interesting. If anything, they're perfumed and loquacious.”
― Monica Brashears, House of Cotton

“It's not so hard to find O.I.M.s, I realize. Almost everyone is an Optical Illusion Person. Isn't everyone almost a certain way, but not quite?”
― Amanda Filipacchi, Nude Men

“All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter rain, told us how the basins of her collarbones collected water.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides