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“Some ineffable piece of me had gone, rewritten by her touch, and what had been stolen was patched by a piece of her, some bit of her heart I had unknowingly taken with me.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“Cubitum eamus?"
"What?"
"Nothing.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift

“And then: 'Here comes your baby. Sois sage. Sois chic.' He moved slightly away and began talking to the boy next to him. And here my baby came indeed, through all that sunlight, his face flushed and his hair flying, his eyes, unbelievably, like morning stars.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room