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“Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?”
― Catherine Lacey, Pew

“Why is it that when men act out it’s always someone else’s fault?”
― Delilah S. Dawson, The Violence

“You aren’t small. You don’t have to make yourself small. You are allowed to have feelings. You are allowed to experience rage. You are allowed to take up space. You are allowed to be irrational and loud and ugly. You don’t have to make yourself less. Not ever again. You don’t have to play by those rules anymore.”
― Delilah S. Dawson, The Violence

“The human capacity for self-delusion is apparently infinite – and if that is the case, how are we ever meant to know, except by existing in a state of absolute pessimism, that once again we are fooling ourselves?”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline