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“What about heaven, Ina? Don’t you want to go?’ ‘It doesn’t matter,’ she said. ‘I won’t know anyone.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“From the outset he knew that Thomas would never be "everything" to him. This is why he called their love "separate rooms". He experienced being with Thomas in the intimate knowledge that they would split up sooner or later. Separation was an essential strength in their relationship, and an essential part of it too, just like the idea of attraction, or growth, or sexual desire. It represented an awareness that if you did not stop the other person from leaving, this made the relationship all the more human.”
― Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Camere separate

“God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: so that humanity might share in the act of creation.”
― Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

“Please, Erno. It’s Sunday. It’s evil to discuss money on the Sabbath,
don’t you know?’
‘It’s Tuesday, my lord,’ Erno muttered.
‘Every day is Sunday in God’s kingdom.’
‘Then when would we work?’
‘Please, Erno. Clod needs to concentrate.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona