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“She took out her candle, put it in the candleholder I made for her, and lit it at both ends. When she lit her soul like that she was her most beautiful. Her face glowed. Her pale skin was lit form within like a Chinese paper lantern about to burst into flame.”
― Ken Liu

“I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“There is no greater suffering than that of a parent who is unable to save their own child who wants to die.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales from the Cafe

“And still, I knew that the sights Tridib saw in his imagination were infinitely more detailed, more precise than anything I would ever see. He said to me once that one could never know anything except through desire, real desire, which was not the same thing as greed or lust; a pure, painful and primitive desire, a longing for everything that was not in oneself, a torment of the flesh, that carried one beyond the limits of one's mind to other times and other places, and even, if one was lucky, to a place where there was no border between oneself and one's image in the mirror.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines