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“Another thing. If you're missing me I want you to know I'm not missing you. Gone is gone. I never miss anything or anyone because it all becomes a lovely memory. I guard my memories and love them, but I don't get in them and lie down. You can even make stories from yours, but remember, they don't come back. Just think how awful it would be if they did. You don't need me now. You're eleven years old which is old enough to get busy at growing up to be the person you want to be.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

“Over the course of my life, as I have made my Houdini-like escapes from one self-imposed constraint after another, a question haunts me with increasing insistence. How many levels does this game have?”
― Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength

“The blade flashed, and in that instant for Cicero the mystery that had plagued him all his life was solved, and liberty was extinguished from the earth.”
― Robert Harris

“Harrow said, "But you're God."
And God said, "And I am not enough.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth