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“And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“We stayed mute and disloyal
because we were afraid

I would have touched my fingers
to where your breasts had been
but we never did such things”
― Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language

“And I’ll gaze across the chasm to the other side of the island, where I can still sometimes catch sight of a curly-haired urchin running joyously through the tall purple grass, her faithful dog at her heels.”
― Michelle Cooper, The FitzOsbornes at War

“Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.”
― Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978