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“I thought, maybe I could send them a book about tinnitus, which was my own portentous dream of sorts, my religious vision. The sound of the afterlife. That was my main advantage over the pilot. I was still inside it. God blinds us, deafens us, gives us false dreams which we learn to love before he takes them away. He kills our friends.
That's what the Bible calls healing.”
― Parker Young, Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane

“Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“When Molly was a baby, Sarah had felt as though she could have put her whole body in her mouth and eaten up the fruity little solidity of her. Watching Molly learn and grow was the purest delight Sarah had ever known — she surrendered to another female's glory, maybe even for the first time in her lite. But when Juliette had told Sarah she was pregnant again, with a boy of all things, Sarah had felt ransacked. A boy? Why the need for that?”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Slags

“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles