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“god and man had been inseparable. I had come to see, however, that, in the long run, they were incompatible, just as divinity and womanhood were incompatible, or art and life. I loved him, in those last weeks, with a love that knew its own perishability, a love that threw up its arms and rejoiced in the leaf-shadings, the all-pervading odor of dark earth and chlorine.”
― Laura Elizabeth Woollett, The Wood of Suicides

“It’s probably from being cooped up with your books all week. All this stale air—it’s not healthy. And your father’s study is the worst. I don’t know how you can stand sitting in that room day after day . . .”

I didn’t bother telling her that sitting in that room was easy for me. She wouldn’t have understood that what was hardest for me was the simple fact of changing, of enduring change.”
― Laura Elizabeth Woollett, The Wood of Suicides

“I wonder what it feels like to see nothing but darkness, and what it’s like if that’s all you’ve ever known”
― Eric Schnall, I Make Envy on Your Disco

“With nostalgia, the past becomes what one thinks it should have been”
― Eric Schnall, I Make Envy on Your Disco