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“I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“If your dream is to save the common people, then, my dream is only you.”
― Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

“How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we'll never get used to it.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“The one standing in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matters is ‘you’ and not the state of you.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I’ve been dead for seven years, that’s as warm as they get.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Because people die. The fear: that nothing survives. The greater fear: that something does.”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“He had done what he had to do, and in doing so he had destroyed the world.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“You just wanted to prove there was one safe place, just one safe place where you could love him. You have not found that place yet.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Here we are, at the place where I get to beg for it. Where I get to say ‘Please, for just one night, will you lay down next to me? We can leave our clothes on, we can stay all buttoned up?’ But we both know how it goes – I say I want you inside me and you hold my head underwater. I say I want you inside me and you split me open with a knife.”
― Richard Siken

“Tell me, you fool. If I continue to regress, will I ever get to meet you again?”
― Singshong, 전지적 독자 시점 Epilogue [Jeonjijeog Dogja Sijeom Epilogue]

“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I hope it’s love. I’m trying really hard
to make it love.”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“Two lifetimes, they belong to you. No regrets.”
― Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, 二哈和他的白貓師尊

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Is it better to speak or die?”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“All I wanted to do was come home, because without you, I don’t have a home.”
― T.J. Klune, Wolfsong

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“We are the protagonists of the world.”
― Haruichi Furudate

“If nobody sees you, are you still there?”
― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

“I’m sorry. This is not what I intended to say. What I meant to say is this: You’ll write more poems. They are not lost. You are the poetry.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

“Promise me you won’t try again. Promise me, Jean. I don’t want to lose you.”
Promise me, except he’d walked away years later without a second thought.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court

“I forgave him the moment he came back to me. I would love him still, even if he left me again. I would love him through several lifetimes, I think," Fox determined, resigning himself to the truth, "and I would love him in every world, if he asked.”
― Olivie Blake, Masters of Death

“I wanted to explain myself to myself in an understandable way. I gave shape to my fears and made excuses. I varied my velocities, watched myselves sleep. Something's not right about what I'm doing but I'm still doing it-- living in the worst parts, ruining myself. My inner life is a sheet of black glass. If I fell through the floor I would keep falling.
The enormity of my desire disgusts me.”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“Ruin me, ruin us, and I’ll let you.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God