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“I would be quiet and enduring and as faceted as the night.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“There studious let me sit and hold high converse with the mighty dead.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“You said the real loneliness was being surrounded by people.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“There’s no air and no reason to seek it. I was infinite yet moored, and now I’m hollow and adrift in waters too vast to comprehend.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

“solitude was in its own way a balm for loneliness.”
― Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes

“to fight against time,
against forgetting,
against death,
to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant,
to this eternity of the instant,
which will have been forever”
― Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, Inseparable