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

“He takes a breath. “Yes,” he says. “I’ve decided to stay.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“It was all just a mind game to distract himself from the fact that it was never enough. No one would ever let him have enough.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“It is raining and there is a dog lying
in the gutter and the gutter is filling
with water because the sewer is clogged.

If the dog were alive he would be drowning
but as it is, the water is simply stroking
his fur.”
― Laura Gilpin, The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe