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“Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“It would just mean another night at the kirkyard, and he would steal and sell a thousand bodies if it meant buying her the things that would show her how much he adored her. Let him spend every night in the dirt if it meant getting his mornings with her.”
― Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story

“Let him spend every night in the dirt if it meant getting his mornings with her.”
― Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: Love story