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“Some will undoubtedly find this episode obscene. Not I! Massacre is obscene. Torture is obscene. Three million dead is obscene. Masturbation, even with an admittedly nonconsensual squid? Not so much. I, for one, am a person who believes that the world would be a better place if the word ‘murder’ made us mumble as much as the word ‘masturbation.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“Perhaps I did not always love him so well as I do now. But in such cases as these, a good memory is unpardonable.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Sometimes writing about a thing makes it easier to stand.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“He dreamt a complete man, a youth, but this youth could not rise nor did he speak nor could he open his eyes. Night after night, the man dreamt him as asleep.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins