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“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“He likes both types of conversations with Willem, but he appreciates the mundane ones more than he’d imagined he would. He had always felt bound to Willem by the big things—love; trust—but he likes being bound to him by the small things as well: bills and taxes and dental checkups.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“(You had never said this to me, not explicitly, but I know you will forgive me; I know you will. I know you would have wanted me to say this.)”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
― Anne Carson, Euripides