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Randall Jarrell
“One day is one wave, and the next day the next, for the sea people―and whether they're glad or whether they're sorry, the sea washes it away. When my sister died, the next day I'd forgotten and was happy. But if you died, if he died, my heart would break.

When it storms for the people, no matter how terribly it storms, the storm isn't real―swim down a few strokes and it's calm there, down there it's always calm. And death is not different, if it's someone else who dies. We say. 'Swim away from it'; we swim away from everything.

But on land it's different. The storm's real here, and the red leaves, and the branches when they're bare all winter. It all changes and never stops changing, and I'm here with nowhere to swim to, no way ever to leave it or forget it. No, the land's better! The land's better!”
Randall Jarrell, The Animal Family

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Ursula K. Le Guin
“Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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