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“All of that. And their phone calls, the messages they wrote to one another, their jealousies, the years of looks, suppressed smiles, their dictionary of little touches. All the stories they had told about each other, about themselves. This much was in their eyes and passed between them.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language’s assertive nature by “add[ing] to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty, as if anything that came out of language could make language tremble.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo.
"Pick me up," is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being