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“No, dear, no," said Dorothea, stroking her sister's cheek. "Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“You see the sun?—I built that.”
― Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

“We used to hear the stars, too. When people stopped talking, there was silence. Now you could shut every mouth on the planet and there’d still be a hum. Air-conditioning groaning from the vent beside you. Semi trucks hissing on a highway miles away. A plane complaining ten thousand feet above you.

Silence is an extinct word.

It bothers you, doesn’t it?”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“By you, I am forever undone.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing