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“In the depths of depression, most any action in pursuit of any goal is a powerful gesture of defiance against the inner voice telling you to sit still with your misery.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Something in the Woods Loves You

“...ever farther from human beings, driving him on ever more insistently toward the magnetic pole of the greatest possible solitude.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“Until now he had thought that it was the world in general he had wanted to squirm away from. But it was not the world, it was the people in it.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“He'd mentally prepared for it every day since they'd fallen in love. That something would surely take her away. Cancer, heart disease, a car hitting her bike on a country roạd, a stroke, burglars. Something would steal his immense good luck at loving her, and being loved by her.”
― Richard Osman, We Solve Murders