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“Little solace comes
to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
as walls keep shifting
and this great blue world of ours
seems a house of leaves

moments before the wind.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“The difference between conceding and accepting is depression.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am

“There is a part of you, you see now, that is reckless. A part of you that still always wants to die but never really wants to go after it.
So it makes mistakes instead. Or it says, when trouble comes in and has lemonade, I wonder what this will look like. If I sit still. If I do nothing.”
― Alexander Chee, Edinburgh

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature