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‘I will die like all mortal things. At least let me taste a little life before I go.’

‘None of us deserve our bad fortune, but that doesn’t stop it from coming.’

‘I was so unbearably lonely, a light-starved plant pressing its leaves against a windowpane, keening for the sun.’

‘Her charm was difficult to deny, like the warmth of the sun that turns your face to it even as you know you will be burned.’

‘To want is to surrender to uncertainty. To step into the unknown. To expose ourselves to all possible outcomes and trust we will not be destroyed by disappointment.’

‘What is a monster but a creature of agency?’

‘It was easier to avoid the pain when there was nowhere for it to go.’

“It is terrible to be alive. But it is worse to be dead to ourselves.”

‘One way to ensure my future was to populate it not with people who cared for me but with people for whom it would be deeply inconvenient if I were to be absent.’