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“Everyone looked better at a distance. Everyone sounded sweetest when you did not have to hear them talk too long.”
― Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth

“It hurts too much to break your own heart out of stupidity, to leave a door unlocked or a child untended and return to discover that whatever you value most has disappeared. No. You want to be intentional about the destruction. Be a witness. You want to watch how your life will shatter.”
― Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth

“Loving someone close-up - that was difficult.”
― Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth

“le racisme est une maladie. Un vice. Une maladie honteuse. Qui se développe parfois dans le silence des maisons. On murmure puis on ferme les fenêtres. On crie pendant les repas de famille. Haïr l'autre, c'est l'imaginer contre soi. C'est se sentir possédé. Volé. Pénétré. Le racisme est un fantasme. C'est imaginer l'odeur de sa peau, la tension de son corps, la force de son sexe. Le racisme est une maladie. Une lèpre. Une nécrose.”
― Nina Bouraoui

“Seule l'écriture protégera du monde.”
― Nina Bouraoui, Garçon manqué

“There is always another side, always.”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

“Failure is never getting hurt. Because that means you've not done anything you cared about.”
― Holly Bourne, How Hard Can Love Be?

“Life is so ridiculously clichéd sometimes I wonder why we bother living it when nothing is ever a surprise any more.”
― Holly Bourne, How Hard Can Love Be?