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“Never trust anyone who holds so strictly to decorum.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“No matter what heaven you believe in, your time on this earth will end. What I'm saying is that you should listen--really listen--to the slosh of the waves and the distant call of pacific birds. You should feel a boy's pulse against your cheek; you should fill you lungs with ocean air. While you can, I mean. You should do these things while you still can.”
― Emery Lord

“Never worry what other people think of you, because no one ever thinks of you.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 2

“The conversation went on for another half hour, before this man's girlfriend, who had not said much of anything until then, remarked, Being a woman, you can't just say you don't want a child. You have to have some big plan or idea of what you're going to do instead. And it better be something great. And you had better be able to tell it convincingly - before it even happens - what the arc of your life will be.”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood