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“You had every intention of being depressed forever, but as it turns out, there's work to be done, meals to eat, movies to see, errands to run. You meant to be in ruins permanently, your misery a monument, a gash across the cold hard earth, but honestly, who has the time for that? Instead, you survived - apparently, you both did - and things are shockingly okay.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories

“Where else could you belong, except in the place you refused to leave.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide

“The true tragedy of a routinely spent life is that its wastefulness does not become apparent till it is too late.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide

“the quiet was more like a fog or a mist, creeping in slowly, from a distance, wrapping itself around certain sounds while revealing others: the sawing of a cicada, a snatch of music from a distant radio, the cackle of an owl.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide