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“I want to bite,
I want to chew,
I want to eat you up.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

“Being born a Jew meant being vulnerable to history, including its worst errors. Accident and history had involved Yakov Bok as he had never dreamed he could be involved. The involvement was, in a way of speaking, impersonal, but the effect, his misery and suffering, were not. The suffering was personal, painful, and possibly endless.”
― Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

“Shi Fu once said, since we walk different paths, then there is no need to care about others’ lack of understanding, nor is there any need to explain yourself. In Jiang Hu, famed people have their own path of fame to walk, every person have their own lives to attend, there is no need for bystanders to pitch in their thoughts.”
― 裘夢, 妖女不妖

“If I lived by the sea I would never be really sad. I get an immense sense of eternity and peace from the ocean. I can lose myself in staring at it hour after hour.

--from a letter to Aurelia Plath, written c. July 1951”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956