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  • #1
    Still. Something is missing. Something is off. So, how fucking spoiled am I, then? How fucking broken? What is wrong with me that I can have everything I could ever want and have ever asked for and still wake up in the morning feeling like every day is a slog?”
    Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

  • #2
    Iain Reid
    “It seems to me, maybe for the first time, that there are varying degrees of dead. Like there are varying degrees of everything: of being alive, of being in love, of being committed, of being sure.”
    Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

  • #3
    “I'll try my best to forget, but I think I'll love you for all my life.”
    Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

  • #4
    Intizar Husain
    “What eight things never have their fill of what eight things?”
    “The ocean, of water from the rivers; the fire, of fuel; the woman, of sexual pleasure; the raja, of dominion; the rich man, of wealth; the learned man, of knowledge; the foolish man, of folly; the tyrant, of oppression.”
    Intizar Husain, Basti

  • #5
    Andrés Barba
    “Suddenly there were hands that we didn’t recognize, and we became strangers.”
    Andrés Barba, Such Small Hands

  • #6
    Andrés Barba
    “And we didn’t know what to do with our love, either; it was so heavy.”
    Andrés Barba, Such Small Hands

  • #7
    Andrés Barba
    “We didn’t know sadness until we had a point of comparison.”
    Andrés Barba, Such Small Hands

  • #8
    Andrés Barba
    “Faith in that belief, even just for a moment, is all it takes for everything to change.”
    Andrés Barba, Such Small Hands

  • #9
    Albert Camus
    “When she laughed I wanted her again.”
    Albert Camus, The Stranger

  • #10
    Baek Se-hee
    “For example, when you’re co-dependent on your partner you resent them, but when you leave your partner, you feel anxious and bereft.”
    Baek Sehee, I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Further Conversations with My Psychiatrist

  • #11
    Baek Se-hee
    “I want to go up to that person and ask her how she did it! But the you of the present is looking at your life and past as if you’re a failure. When in truth, from the perspective of a younger you, you’re the very picture of success.”
    Baek Sehee, I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Further Conversations with My Psychiatrist

  • #12
    Ryka Aoki
    “Life could not be avoided. Death comes for everyone. But that did not mean one could not be healed. That did not mean one could not be saved.”
    Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

  • #13
    “It feels like the worst act of betrayal in the world, to have the one who's meant to help get rid of my pain be the one making it.”
    Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

  • #14
    “That's the thing about pain: we forget it.”
    Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

  • #15
    “Knowing Mary has gone through the same thing makes me feel less alone with my pain.”
    Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

  • #16
    “Why suffer for something ordinary?”
    Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

  • #17
    “Sometimes I try to think of a future without him, but it's like trying to imagine a new colour.”
    Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

  • #18
    “I'm going to really miss missing him, I think. I wish I didn't have to forget how great he was in order to feel OK about what's happened. I wish he wasn't a 'was' but an 'is'. I wish he didn't have to be caged up in the past tense.”
    Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

  • #19
    Jandy Nelson
    “She didn't know people could stop loving you. She'd thought friendship was permanent, like matter.”
    Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over

  • #20
    Jandy Nelson
    “She wanted to hold his hand, like they had secretly for years under tables. She wanted to remind him how she used to braid their hair into a single braid so they could pretend they were one person.”
    Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over

  • #21
    Jandy Nelson
    “And then something truly miraculous happened to her in life.

    Two hands planted themselves hard and strong on her hips. She turned and saw a girl. A bright and shining, shooting star of a girl.”
    Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over

  • #22
    Jandy Nelson
    “Still, she was crazy about these two flickering men and wanted to be just like them with someone, except alive and not mute, though perhaps they spoke ghost-language to each other, and she couldn't hear it. She also loved their best friend, an older female ghost who wore men's clothes and ran barefoot through the vineyards, her red hair spun with flowers and bil- lowing behind her like a red river of fresh blooms.

    "Hey guys," she called out to the floating men. "Do you know anything about angels?" But of course she got no answer. They were mid-kiss, midair, entwined and enraptured as always.

    Their eternity was only each other.”
    Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over

  • #23
    Jandy Nelson
    “Dreamt of you again last night. We were spooning, your arms tight around me. I could feel your breath on my neck, your hand on my hip. Your thoughts in my head. Your soul in my body. Love ripping through me all night like a storm. Desperate heartache ever since. Been telling everyone at the restaurant I have allergies to explain the tears.

    ...

    Miss you like the earth misses rain.”
    Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over



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