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“Don’t fly away. We are where we are. We are where we are, I repeated. And where are you, Elsa? Perhaps there was no one in the world who better understood me. And misunderstood me. His main task when I was a child was to focus my wandering attention. His question went back a long way. Now I heard it as a refrain, a repeated musical phrase. I’m here with you, I replied. My words were muffled under the mask. It began to dawn on me, at that moment, that I was going to lose him. It didn’t matter if I wore a mask.”
― Deborah Levy, August Blue

“Because at night, only half the world remains.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All The Lovers In The Night

“Night ended, morning came, and as I looked out on the blueness spreading into the corners of the sky, I thought about what he had told me, about all the light that was there and yet impossible to see.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“That was the old composition and I had walked out of that world. I had literally walked off the stage.”
― Deborah Levy, August Blue