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“You thought people were giants, and they disappointed you by being so human.”
― Rebecca F. Kuang, Katabasis

“I can hear you clearly but it is also as if you are far away. It is unbearable to look back from the future we did not know we had been traveling toward. That is not right. It is unbearable because we did know. It was plain as our own palms.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“There are times when I seem to remember my mother as though she were a landscape rather than a person. Those blue eyes filled the entire sky of my childhood.”
― Sigrid Nunez, A Feather on the Breath of God

“They stand in each other’s arms, already naked and so alive. They glow in the dark like the white flowers, like allegorical statues in a midnight garden. Youth. Love. Stupidity. Lust.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over