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“That's deep, he said with just a hint of mockery. You a psychologist?

I told him I was a writer.”
― Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

“...but first love, I think it’s like a song, a stupid pop song that you hear and you think, well that is all I will ever want to listen to, it’s got everything, it’s clearly the greatest piece of music ever written, I need nothing else. ’Course we wouldn’t put it on now. We’re too hard and experienced and sophisticated. But when it comes on the radio, well, it’s still a good song.”
― David Nicholls, Sweet Sorrow

“The secret to a beautiful death is living a beautiful life.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility