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“I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper as I did?”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper

“It’s like swimming through an organism so much larger than ourselves, with no other purpose than to discover the forgetting and to search for an empty nook to crawl into, waiting for nature to forgive me.”
― Matthieu Simard, The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

“The dip in the centre tells the story of how close we used to be and pushes us toward one another even when we don’t think about it.”
― Matthieu Simard, The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

“Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die—die, sweetly die—into mine.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla