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“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“It's superb to be out in the early, early morning before the sun comes up. There's this sense of being super-alive. You're in on a secret that all the dull, sleeping people don't know about. Unlike them, you're alert and aware of existing right here in this precise moment between what happened and what's going to happen.”
― Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now

“But the Beatles turned out to be one of the things you couldn’t avoid, like alcohol, or death.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“I said, "Do you think she thinks it's me?"

Jas said, "Well, it's pretty conclusive, isn't it? She said 'the most sniveling idiot I have ever come across.'"

I said, "I didn't know that YOU have been seeing Masimo. Tom the Slug King is going to be very upset.”
― Louise Rennison, Startled by His Furry Shorts