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“The girls, it turned out, had killed themselves on June 16, the anniversary of Cecilia’s wristslitting.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Song after song throbbed with secret pain.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“I can now afford to think about her.
I no longer cry when I hear her name.
I no longer imagine the transporter being called to take her to the morgue after we left the ICU.
Yet I still need her with me.”
― Joan Didion, Blue Nights

“Eileen was fast asleep, and for a while he watched over her, feeling the need of her, letting his gaze idle over her bare shoulder, her open, sleeping hands, the soot-black darkness of her hair against the pillowslip. The longing to stay, to reach out and touch her was deep, but he took his shirt and trousers from the chair and dressed in the dark, without her waking.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These