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“I thought that it was more likely the opposite. I must have shut grief out. Found it in books. Cried over fiction instead of the truth. The truth was unconfined, unadorned. There was no poetic language to it, no yellow butterflies, no epic floods. There wasn't a town trapped underwater or generations of men with the same name destined to make the same mistakes. The truth was vast enough to drown in.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I've always been a fan of science fiction. I grew up watching Star Trek. Now I get to live it!"
"Star Trek?" Trond asked. "Seriously? That's like a hundred years old."
"Quality is quality," Jin said. "Age is irrelevant. No one bitches about Shakespeare fans.”
― Andy Weir, Artemis

“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.”
― Herman Melville

“We did not ask for this room or this music. We were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. We have been given pain to be astounded by joy. We have been given life to deny death. We did not ask for this room or this music. But because we are here, let us dance.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“One day becomes another, now becomes then.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Ama kadınlar, Tanrım,
Öyle sevdim ki onları,
Gelecek sefer
Dünyaya
Kadın olarak gelirsem,
Eşcinsel olurum.”
― Cemal Süreya, Sevda Sözleri