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

“Hell’s lonely,” said Peter. “You’ll want company.” “Hell is other people, I’ve heard.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“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

“I cannot decide which I like best. The sunrise, or the sunset. They are like life, and her quiet companion, death.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth