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“He felt locked into Lane’s version of him. Disposable. Occupying a space, a slot in the world, for no good reason.
And therefore, in the end—after years of what he took to be closeness—not even worth a goodbye.
He must be less than no one. Because no one, at least, contained possibility.”
― Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

“It would have been too melodramatic, too final, to say that after this JB was forever diminished for him. But it was true that for the first time, he was able to comprehend that the people he had grown to trust might someday betray him anyway, and that as disappointing as it might be, it was inevitable as well, and that life would keep propelling him steadily forward, because for everyone who might fail him in some way, there was at least one person who never would.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I may be empty inside, hollowed and devoured by Oxana, and I may be alone and beyond redemption, but I will not be broken.
Fuck them all.
I will not be broken.”
― Luke Jennings, Killing Eve - Die for me: Tome 3

“That's the best way to know anything, although no one ever tells you that. No one ever says, "Just use the expansive feeling in your chest to understand what's true, and what you want, and where to go, and what really matters," because they're too busy forcing you to learn from books that they're choosing, and pointing at whiteboards that they're writing on, and encouraging you to ask questions from curriculums that they've set.”
― Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth