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“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I hunger to commit the act of touch.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“verily everything that is lost will be given a name & will not come back but will live forever”
― Safia Elhillo, The January Children

“The places we are born come back to us. They disguise themselves as words, memory loss, nightmares. They are the way we sometimes wake with a pressure on our chests that is animal-like or turn on a light and see someone we'd thought was long gone standing there looking at us.”
― Daisy Johnson, Everything Under

“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?
And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”
― Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

“No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
― Chinua Achebe

“They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I am catastrophically in love with you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess