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“It's easier to hide in your own darkness, than to emerge, naked and vulnerable, blinking in your own light.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“...and I'm sure I saw something like a television receptor on one end of the bench--remember that affair like a big lens set in a square box?”
― Rudolph Fisher, The Conjure-Man Dies

“Love's a complicated thing," she said. "It seldom exists in its purest form.”
― Eva Leigh, The Good Girl's Guide to Rakes

“As for Dr. Custos, he was an honorable practitioner who, following the example of his colleagues, cured his patients of all their diseases, except the one they died from: a disagreeable habit that has been picked up, unfortunately, by all the members of the medical profession, whichever country they practice in.”
― Jules Verne, Une fantaisie du Docteur Ox / Maître Zacharius / Un drame dans les airs / Un hivernage dans les glaces / Les forceurs de blocus