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“X was not exactly a person to me yet, but a possibility, a different way of life. I defied her then and for a long time after, believed her to be an oracle, almost inhuman. Now it is so clear to me that love is the opposite of deification, that it erodes persona down to its mortal root. She was always human, difficult as it was for me to admit that; I made so much trouble for myself by refusing to see it.”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

“It must be a kind of suicide to love a person like this, a person so edgeless. It must be like drowning.”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

“This cowardice, unknowingness in the face of mu own feelings is why I betray those I love, verbally, when I refused to express my feelings for them.”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

“Cause I’m telling you, I read all the time. Seventy-five novels last year, I counted! Well, Goodreads counted.”
― Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Plot