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“Anxiety. It’s such a peculiar thing. Almost everyone knows what it feels like, yet none of us can describe it. Maya looks at herself in the mirror, wonders why it can’t be seen on the outside. Not even on x-rays— how does that work? How can something that bangs away at us so horribly hard on the inside not show up on the pictures as black scars, scorched into our skeletons? How can the pain she feels not be visible in the mirror?”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“He’s there in old house fronts and tired trees poking up from cement. He’s the bridge and the river. Each towering building. The burnished sky. How do you un-know someone if you only know most of you because of them? How do you even try?”
― Rhiannon Wilde, Henry Hamlet's Heart