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“I don’t know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.”
― Annihilation
― Annihilation
“In many ways, women are death's natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but a death. Samuel Beckett wrote that women "give birth astride of a grave." Mother Nature is indeed a real mother, creating and destroying in a constant loop.”
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
“I declare
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we are.”
― Come Close
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we are.”
― Come Close
“Is this desire? How queer that I, of all people, should not know! But I thought desire smaller, neater; I supposed it bound to its own organs as taste is bound to the mouth, vision to the eye. This feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. It covers me, like skin.”
― Fingersmith
― Fingersmith
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