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“I wonder what it's like to be him. To vocalize the stupid thoughts he has without considering how others will interpret them. He just fumbles happily throughout his day, saying whatever he is compelled to - while I am over here laboring to produce appeasing facial expressions.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“But strange, Mina, why do I feel like this? I don’t need a Red String or Fate to tell me that if you should die, so will I.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“I wanted to stay on the boat I was on. I felt like I had just gotten on it. I didn’t feel ready to hop onto a new one yet.”
― Emily R. Austin, We Could Be Rats

“I wonder if anyone really identifies as the adult they’ve morphed into. I remember being sixteen and feeling eleven. I remember thinking, how could I be a teenager? I remember finishing high school and thinking, am I grown now? Is this what it feels like? I feel the same as I did before.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead