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“Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is.”
― Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

“They were monsters!" Rin shrieked. "They were not human!"

"Have you ever considered" he said slowly "that that was exactly what they thought of us?”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“Isn't that the way adult life begins? You think you'll become something different, something new?”
― Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

“Perhaps you never have time when you are alone? You only acquire it by watching it go by in others".”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men