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

“There's a certain point in life at which you realise it's no longer interesting that time goes forward – or rather, that its forward-going-ness has been the central plank of life's illusion, and that while you were waiting to see what was going to happen next, you were steadily being robbed of all you had. Language is the only thing capable of stopping the flow of time, because it exists in time, is made of time, yet it is eternal – or can be.”
― Rachel Cusk, Second Place

“What a terror a body must live through. It’s a wonder there are people at all.”
― Catherine Lacey, Pew

“A word is put down as a placeholder for something that cannot be communicated, no matter what anyone tries, no matter how many words accumulate, there is always that absence.”
― Catherine Lacey, Pew