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“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

“The memory of his thumb caressing my palm stabs me;”
― Matthieu Simard, The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

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

“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