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“I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.”
― Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine

“I don’t feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall – like seeking love in a whorehouse.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Her heart was a river that carried her to the sea.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom