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“There is a kind of sadness that transcends sadness, that runs like hot syrup into every crevice of your being, beginning in the heart then oozing into your very cells and bloodstream, so that nothing-not earth or sky or even your own palm ever looks the same. This is the sadness that changes everything.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“Christ,” said Peter. “Hell is a campus.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“She gazed at Peter and thought, 'I wish I were the night, so that I might watch your sleep with a thousand eyes.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“We all float through space on a rock, hurtling toward forever. So many of us forget that it's other people who make life worth living. As much as we like to think so, we can't do this alone. Everyone needs someone. Maybe not all the time, but enough that it matters.”
― T.J. Klune, We Burned So Bright