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“She was sitting quietly on the bank of a stream with her feet in the water, her robe perfectly white, and no blood anywhere except for her hair. It was dark, and clotted, completely soaked. As if she's tried to dye it red.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“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

“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

“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