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Katabasis

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 23, 2025 10:57PM

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

tags: depression, sadness, suicide

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“If people appeared to behave pointlessly in grief, it was only because human life was pointless, and this was the truth that grief revealed.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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“But no one had ever been saved by memories, no one had been protected by words and pledges, and those loved greatly by others died too.”
― Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra

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“Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice.”
― Jessica Hagedorn, The Gangster of Love: A Novel

tags: filipino, filipino-authors, identity, nationality

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“I realised my life would be full of mundane physical suffering, and that there was nothing special about it. Suffering wouldn't make me special, and pretending not to suffer wouldn't make me special. Talking about it, or even writing about it, would not transform the suffering into something useful.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

tags: pain, suffering

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