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Book cover for After Dark
In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount.”
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Carmen Maria Machado
“And isn't that how you become tender, vulnerable? The tissue-softening marination of your own mind, the quicksand of mental indulgence?”
Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“This world was designed to generate winners and losers, and it showed a lack of character to wish yourselves a winner without accepting what it does to those who lose.”
Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys

Carmen Maria Machado
“I took a step toward her. 'It is my right to reside in my own mind. It is my right,' I said.”
Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Oscar Wilde
“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
Oscar Wilde

Colette
“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
Colette

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