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“What she called the nastiness of life was the shock she received upon learning that nobody stopped playing checkers just because the pieces included her children.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“How can it be repeated and what for? I love and can love only that earth which I have left, stained with my blood, when, in my ingratitude, I quenched my life with a bullet in my heart. But I have never, never ceased to love that earth, and perhaps on the very night I parted from it I loved it more than ever. Is there suffering upon this new earth? On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering. We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love. I want suffering in order to love.”
― Fydor Dostoevsky, The Short Stories of Dostoevsky

“I never wished to live before I knew you. I always thought it would be better if i died. Such a long time to wait before it’s over.”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

“When it started not to hurt, it started not to matter. She understood, perhaps, Louis thought, how easy it would be to let Gage become dead.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary