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“They say if you want something bad enough you’ll end up making a god out of it. But what if all I ever wanted was my life, Ma?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“He could do that. Change himself to fit the person, like water taking shape off whatever vessel it was poured into. He could be all these things at once.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“I am a quite unnecessarily complicated piece of mechanism”
― Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin

“She continues talking about how difficult things were. These tales have been passed down from mothers to daughters since women had mouths and stories could be told. They contain some moral message, some rites of passage. But they also transfer that feeling all mothers know before their time is done. Guilt.”
― Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar