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“SOMETIMES YOU HEAR PEOPLE say so-and-so has lived well, and so-and-so has had a dull life. They are missing a key point when they say that. Any experience is experience, any life a life. A day in a cloister can be as dramatic and fatal as a day on a battlefield.”
― Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

“He was relieved to have told me. He transmuted his guilt into my anger and now I was the one who had to carry it and he had the audacity to be relieved.”
― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife

“No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth...”
― Isaac Asimov, The Currents of Space

“A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.”
― Lord Dunsany