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“Hero knew that lust was one of the time-honored antidotes to sorrow, but that had never been her relationship to sex. Whatever sorrows lived in her heart were either too superficial to need such soothing, or too burrowed-in and settled to be eased out by something as mundane as coming for the fourth or fifth time against Rosalyn's fingers in the kitchen late at night when the restaurant was long closed; Rosalyn multitasking by leaving eggs and longanisa frying in an oily pan while grinding into Hero's lap, hand down her unzipped jeans, until Hero unclenched her teeth from Rosalyn's ear and said, Something's, uh, burning, and Rosalyn cursed and hopped off.”
― Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart

“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

“And Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“Around a hero everything becomes a tragedy, around a demi-god everything becomes a satyr play; and around God everything becomes-what do you think? perhaps the 'world'?-”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil