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“It saddened him, of course, that his sex life and his home life should have to be two distinct realms, but he was old enough now to know that within every relationship was something unfulfilled and disappointing, something that had to be sought elsewhere.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“L'amour vrai nait dans la souffrance. Il faut s'épurer de toute fausse joie, de tout plaisir mondain, de toute ambition, de toutes les facilités matérielles, pour atteindre a la liberté du désespéré, seul état dans lequel la vérité du délire amoureux puisse encore trouver sa voie jusqu'au fond de l’être.”
― Simon Liberati, Eva

“And then we would sit and watch as the first hint of sunlight, a light tinge of day blue, would leak out of the eastern horizon, slowly erasing the stars. The day sky would spread wide and high, until the first ray of the sun made an appearance. The morning commuters began to animate the distant South Lake Tahoe roads. But craning your head back, you could see the day’s blue darken halfway across the sky, and to the west, the night remained yet unconquered – pitch-black, stars in full glimmer, the full moon still pinned in the sky. To the east, the full light of day beamed toward you; to the west, night reigned with no hint of surrender. No philosopher can explain the sublime better than this, standing between day and night. It was as if this were the moment God said, “Let there be light!” You could not help but feel your specklike existence against the immensity of the mountain, the earth, the universe, and yet still feel your own two feet on the talus, reaffirming your presence amid the grandeur.”
― Paul Kalanithi

“Honoring delicacy over full disclosure only comes back to haunt you in the end.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours