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“She thought: I can hold you and find that I still miss your body. She thought: I can listen to you speak and still miss the sound of your voice.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“There isn’t a version of me that could’ve looked away from you.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“She would never leave a room again and not leave half of her behind.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“She had made the kitchen a lovely place. Isabel could cry at it: at how a room could be made, and left behind, and turn terrible by way of absence. How a space could miss a person.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep