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“I shook my head. ‘Sarah,’ I said. ‘I do not deserve your help. You do not know everything about me.’
‘I think I know enough.’
‘Please listen, Sarah. I was there when Andrew killed himself.’
‘What?’
‘Yes. And, if I tried harder, I think I could have saved him.’
There was a long silence between us… On the concrete floor of the cell I saw a tear splash, and I looked up into Sarah’s face.
‘You know what the worst thing is?’ she said. ‘If I had tried harder, I suppose I could have saved Andrew too.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
― Stephen Greenblatt

“My God doesn’t love me or hate me or watch over me or know me at all, and I feel no love for or loyalty to my God. My God just is.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“That which yields is not always weak.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart