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“They bustled around chatting. It was the first time I listened closely, and I was astonished at how much they had to say, the passion with which they repeated the same thing in ten different ways so as to avoid noticing, in fact, that they had absolutely nothing to say to each other for ages, but human beings need to speak, otherwise they lose their humanity”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“a boy who loves too little and a girl who loves too much, two threads tangled on the loom of history”
― A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

“It was a curious thing to be watched so carefully by the dead.”
― Johanna van Veen, Blood on Her Tongue