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“Why did You bid me drown the letter? I have lost something that he touched, and the destruction of it has gained You nothing, for now I no longer read the words, I hear them, as if he implored me face to face. Speak to me, Jacob, do not play the tyrant. Speak to me.”
― Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt

“Every woman is full of tragedies. She is obliged to share them with nobody but God.”
― Elliott Gish, Grey Dog

“People cannot bear to think there are channels of human experience that are closed off to them, that they’ll never know. People want to believe their experience is universal, that nothing’s outside their scope.”
― Gus Moreno, This Thing Between Us

“Your grave turned into a bookmark we couldn’t get past. That we kept going back to.”
― Gus Moreno, This Thing Between Us