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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

by Jules Verne

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May 23, 2021 12:02AM

“I lapped the blood off my knuckles. The dried flakes dissolved in my mouth, turning my spit to syrup. Even after I’d swallowed all the blood, I kept licking my hands. I tore at the skin with my teeth. I wanted more. I would always want more.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff

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“Can one eat pain, Dadima?’ Ajji stopped talking and stared at me for a minute. As if she was addressing someone else, she said, ‘Correct, isn’t it? One should eat pain and give happiness.”
― Banu Mushtaq, Heart Lamp: Selected Stories

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“A little while after she had gone, Latif Ahmad began to feel uneasy. When there was so much poverty and misery around, was there a need to be inhumane too?”
― Banu Mushtaq, Heart Lamp: Selected Stories

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“Do you know who gets justice? Only those who demand it. People like you will not get justice if you don’t demand it.”
― Banu Mushtaq, Heart Lamp: Selected Stories

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“The best was having nothing. No hope. No name in the throat. And finding the breath in you, the body, to ask.”
― Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars: Poems

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