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“But if you tell yourself, 'This is the last time I'm going to cry about this. I'm going to feel all this pain in these next moments, and then I'm going to stop thinking about it,' then you can overcome great tragedy.”
― Eileen Glass, Human Omega: Trapped in the Alien Jungle

“I was frightened even by God. I could not believe in His love, only in His punishment. Faith. That, I felt, was the act of facing the tribunal of justice with one’s head bowed to receive the scourge of God. I could believe in hell, but it was impossible for me to believe in the existence of heaven.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Kodiak is dead. The tumor Rover extracted was just a hint of how much was growing in his body. The universe has no light in it anymore. I will join him tonight. Hug your Kodiak close to you. I love you. - Ambrose #13”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

“he learns that people will always choose a simple lie over a complicated truth, because the lie has one unbeatable advantage: the truth always has to stick to what actually happened, whereas the lie just has to be easy to believe.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You