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“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“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 know. It’s not fair that the word laughter is trapped inside slaughter. We’ll have to cut it open, you and I, like a newborn lifted, red and trembling, from the just-shot doe.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Maybe we look into mirrors not merely to seek beauty, regardless how illusive, but to make sure, despite the facts, that we are still here. That the hunted body we move in has not yet been annihilated, craped out. To see yourself still yourself is a refuge men who have not been denied cannot know.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous