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“Love you in any and every form, be it corporeal or even immaterial, love you in every direction of space and time. A snake can shed its skin a hundred times, but it will always remain a snake. To be sisters with you in one lifetime is not enough.”

“They are lying on the same sand, but a gulf opens up between them.”

“To be without language, without distraction, with someone you love. Language has given them ways of hiding from each other.

Now she is used to the lonely malleability of her own human face, this skin’s repertoire of disguises.

The currency of spoken language forces everything to be too precise, yet not enough.”

“The bells and whistles of consumption save them from having to really connect. They can while away hours engaged in some form of opulent activity, seemingly together, yet without exactly being with each other.”

“Having someone bear witness to your pain is risky: it takes the experience out of your hands, makes things real in a way you cannot unmake. Alone, you’re free to rearrange the pieces till they sit right in your head. If no one else saw the way you cried, you can tell yourself it didn’t matter that much, did it?”