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“Perhaps that is why the Russians have come here, these flocks of exiles who fled the Bolshevik Revolution and even before that, when their home could no longer be a home. If you decided to run, you might as well keep running until you came to the edge of the world.
That is what this city is. The party at the end of the world.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“But the truth is, death is everywhere. Death comes for the roses and the apples, it comes for the mice and the birds. It comes for us all. Why should death stop us from living?”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“Evil will have unleashed the fullness of itself at the point that it becomes convinced that it is not evil.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I think I wait for people to hurt me," she said quietly, "and when they do I feel a certain smugness at being right. And, after that, I just feel pain.”
― Sue Zhao