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“What power a girl can have over a boy, to make him write such things! And what power a boy can have over a girl, to make her believe he has seen her fate. We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.”
― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?

“Today, love is being positivized into a formula for enjoyment. Above all, love is supposed to generate pleasant feelings. It no longer represents plot, narration, or drama - only inconsequential emotion and arousal. It is free from the negativity of injury, assault, or crashing. To fall (in love) would already be too negative. Yet it is precisely such negativity that constitutes love”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros

“Ásgrímr segir: ‘Illa er slíkt mælt, at verða mǫnnum þá sízt at liði, er mest liggr við.’ Asgrim said, ‘These are mean words; you are of least use when the need is greatest.”
― Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai

“I mean maybe I was holding all of the aces, but what was the game?”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays