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“if they didn’t have wood or kindling, they curled against one another, barely touching, but by morning, they’d be pressed together, breathing in tandem, cocooned in muzzy sleep, a single crescent moon.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Love is a quiet, reassuring, relaxing, pottering, pedantic, harmonious hum of a thing; something you can easily forget is there, even though its palms are outstretched beneath you in case you fall.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“The introductory essay explains that the title is based on the Mao Zedong quote: Women hold up half the sky.

I'd read in the paper that morning how many calls the police hotline had received about Yin's disappearance - apparently hundreds of calls from people all over, and not just about Yin but about dozens of other missing women too. Shouldn't we be doing more to find them? Caring more that they've disappeared?

I know the longer Yin's gone, the more we should worry for her, but I've noticed that the pure fear of the first weeks has melted away. The more time that passes, the easier it becomes to forget.

If women hold up half the sky, then why are we so disposable?”
― Leanne Hall, The Gaps

“he wonders, absently, how long it's going to take for the memories to pale. how long is it going to take before they start fading a little, until they're a remote, ancient blur in the back of his mind he takes refuge in because they're happy. because they're peaceful.”
― MediaWhore, Tired Tired Sea