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“She could not say why; he just seemed like the kind of man who healed, rather than wounded.”
― An Yu, Braised Pork

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“You see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough for others -- why they must dream up new and marvelous spheres, or long to live elsewhere, beyond this dominion...All I ever wanted was to know *this* world.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

tags: death

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“There are no words from this world for the entrance into the Darkness, no words for the last bite.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

tags: death

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“I had always felt, ever since Jamie and I got together, that it was too good, that we were too lucky. That happiness like this couldn't possibly last: we were using up more than our allotted quota of the stuff, and at some point someone had to notice.”
― Lucy Foley, The Hunting Party

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“Sometimes, I used to sit under the sky, on a clear night, and gaze at the stars, saying, in my croaky voice: “Lord, if you’re up there somewhere, and you aren’t too busy, come and say a few words to me, because I’m very lonely and it would make me so happy.” Nothing happened. So I reckon that humanity— which I wonder whether I belong to —really had a very vivid imagination.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

tags: existentialism, god

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