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The Idiot
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"re-reading because i loved either/or so much i've convinced myself i just didn't get it the first time round" Mar 23, 2026 03:13AM

 
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Alice Walker
“He love looking at Shug. I love looking at Shug. But Shug don’t love looking at but one of us. Him. But that the way it spose to be. I know that. But if that so, why my heart hurt me so?”
Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“You couldn’t go anywhere in this town without bumping into God.”
Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

Julia Armfield
“I think,” Juna says after a pause, “that the thing about losing someone isn’t the loss but the absence of afterwards. D’you know what I mean? The endlessness of that.” She looks sideways at me and sniffs. “My friends were sad, people who knew my sister were sad, but everyone moves on after a month. It’s all they can manage. It doesn’t mean they weren’t sad, just that things keep going or something, I don’t know.” She rolls her shoulder, shakes her head. “It’s hard when you look up and realise that everyone’s moved off and left you in that place by yourself. Like they’ve all gone on and you’re there still, holding on to this person you’re supposed to let go of.”
Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

Zora Neale Hurston
“It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Claire Keegan
“Where there’s a secret,’ she says, ‘there’s shame – and shame is something we can do without.”
Claire Keegan, Foster

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