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The deaths of their family had become a forbidden subject, deflected at all costs, as if mentioning it would result in a hex being cast on them. But still the memory loomed above Anh’s head as a constant cloud, invading her thoughts and
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“The thing was not to get to know any of them, if possible. Once you know your neighbours, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.”
― Crewe Train
― Crewe Train
“No sense of having anything if you’ve no one to give it to.”
― Rage the Night
― Rage the Night
“Because my uncle never killed himself—but simply died, on purpose.”
― Time is a Mother
― Time is a Mother
“…it is in solitude where one finds one’s courage.”
― Rage the Night
― Rage the Night
“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
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