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“In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows. In my mind are all the halls, the endless procession of them, the intricate pathways. When this world becomes too much for me, when I grow tired of the noise and the dirt and the people, I close my eyes and I name a particular vestibule to myself; then I name a hall.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“Common phrase would lead one to believe human beings carry feelings primarily in their heart. Yet no matter how many times Abernathy searches the chambers of his chest for the source, he finds the sadness that pervades his life originating not in his heart, or his gut, his elbows, or his mouth, or his hands.

Sometimes, in moments of desperation, he thinks he must carry despair in his blood. How else to explain the fact that though he tries his best to be happy, anguish moves so fast inside him, everywhere. Everywhere and all at once.”
― Molly McGhee, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

“I hated her because I did not understand what it was that I had lost before I saw it in her.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone

“Let that be a lesson to you: If you are too good and too quiet for too long, it will cost you. It will always cost you, in the end.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January