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“The longer I lived, the more my body collapsed into an ever more aberrant shape. It wasn’t collapsing into death. Rather, it collapsed so as to live, collapsed as a testament to all the time I’d withstood. To live, my body breaks.”
― Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

“One thing about being alive is that you can swim. Other things too - you can look at the clouds in the daytime and the stars at night and think of space as something you can't terribly care about conquering. Let it go on being spacious while it can. There's lots of time if you think in terms of light-years.”
― Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding

“My dead body will have to lie here with the grass in its fist, while I go on in some other place.”
― Olga Ravn, The Employees

“love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don't panic now.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“I have always known that I am getting better when things that are beautiful start to feel relevant to me again.”
― Kathryn Harlan, Fruiting Bodies: Stories

“For as long as there's something for me to love in the forest, I shall love it; and if some day there is nothing, I shall stop living.”
― Marlen Haushofer, The Wall

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

“Perhaps home, like the moon, will follow wherever she goes.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“I've been to so many places and not a single one has saved me.”
― Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

“You understand. I wish you didn't, because I know it means you're as tangled up as I am, but...I'm grateful that you do.”
― Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

“She had thought that when someone died, it would be like they went into a different room. She had not known that life itself transformed into a different room and trapped you in it without them.”
― Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

“Today,
I walked into a coffee shop
but no one was there who looked like
they could completely fuck up my life and inspire
a mediocre poem and a half so
I just left.”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse

“Because one day you will die, I promise, and mortality does not care if you believe in it.”
― Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

“Listen to me very closely: being looked at is not the same as being seen.”
― Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

“But what was death to me, when it was my first act in life? Death looked like the house of the body opening, returning to a wider place: that place of confusion and strange beauty.”
― Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

“Do not trust anyone who tells you there is only one story. If there were only one story or one way of seeing things all stories would die.”
― Debra Magpie Earling, The Lost Journals of Sacajewea

“In general, she feels too much or too little, interacts too much or too little -- never the right amount. It seems to her that she's spent her whole life sitting in a laundromat, freaking people out.”
― Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

“She carried something terrible with her. She kept her grief subdued and quiet – so much so, it had begun to rot.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“Any horror story could be said to work in two pieces: the fear of being wholly alone and of realising that one has company.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites

“The problem is not that I can’t speak; the problem is that because I don’t speak, he won’t look at me.”
― Samanta Schweblin, Good and Evil and Other Stories

“Girls—normal human girls—people could contend with; they were weak and small. And dogs too could be trained. But girls who became dogs, or who let the world believe they were dogs, were either powerful or mad: both monstrous possibilities.”
― Xenobe Purvis, The Hounding

“What have you done today to deserve your eyes?”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

“If you have never sat in your bedroom, examining the parts of yourself that you have willingly cut off, you might never know. If you have never put parts of yourself back together while alone, one stitch at a time, then you might not ever understand.”
― Rose Keating, Oddbody

“My body isn't like yours.”
― Olga Ravn, The Employees

“The unthinkable is something we carry with us always. It has already happened: we are improbable, we have emerged from a cloud of unbelievable coincidences.”
― Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume I

“We have grown accustomed to living with that knowledge without feeling dizzy every morning, and instead of moving around warily and tentatively, in constant amazement, we behave as if nothing has happened, take the strangeness of it all for granted and get dizzy if life shows itself as it truly is: improbable, unpredictable, remarkable.”
― Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume I

“But such things are indeed allowed, and such people who allow it are everywhere.”
― Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

“Those meals tasted like nothing after Daisy got sick. Isn't that bizarre, how grief can devour? How it can make everything it touches just like itself? Everything I ate, saw, said, heard, smelled was grief.”
― Lior Torenberg, Just Watch Me

“They kept scrolling until they got the message they wanted to hear. They mistook code for clairvoyance.”
― Leigh Stein, If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You