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“The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency

“What is past is not dead; it is not even past. We cut ourselves off from it; we pretend to be strangers.”
― Christa Wolf, Patterns of Childhood

“While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.”
― Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights