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“Yet she wasn't just sitting in the booth. She looked like she'd put down first and last month's rent, plus security deposit, plus an exorbitant broker's few, signed a lease, and moved into the booth.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“I didn't want to believe it, didn't want to accept that Ashley - such a fierce presence in every story I'd ever heard about her - could be singlehandedly struck down by real life.
I wanted a wilder explanation for her death, something darker, bloodier, more insane - a devil's curse.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“And there we both stand, battered by life, two men, brothers, finally reunited in a world that is not our home.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“All the mistakes I made because I wanted to prove to myself what I never fully believed: that I belonged, that I was worthy.”
― Maggie Su, Blob: A Love Story