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“But in the morning, her anger had lost its edges. It had morphed into sorrow. She was now overtaken by the dull ache of grief, expansive and tender like a whole-body bruise.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“I feel like there are two different sides of me, like I could be anyone and touch anyone and love like that kind of Holy Ghost love - everywhere and everyone. Most of my friends act like they know exactly who and what they are, like there's only one answer, but to me, that feels like putting a beginning and end on something that's not supposed to have either.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“She tries to pronounce this in a way that communicates several things: apology, painful embarrassment, some additional feigned embarrassment that serves to ironise and dilute the painful kind, a sense that she knows she will be forgiven or is already, a desire not to ‘make a big deal’.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People