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“How could we explain that standing on a stage and speaking someone else’s words as if they are your own is less an act of bravery than a desperate lunge at mutual understanding? An attempt to forge that tenuous link between speaker and listener and communicate something, anything, of substance.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Life is tragic, and therefore unutterably beautiful.”
― James Baldwin, The Analog Sea Review: Number Two