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“To sacrifice life, your own or another's is nothing to you. You are just the man that's needed. It's just such a man as you that I need. I know no one but you. You are the leader, you are the sun and I am your worm.”

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

"I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed"

Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”

Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

Bell Hooks, All About Love

“the desire for independence trailing a convoy of insidious hormones had transformed me from a child who couldn't bear to sleep without her mother into a teenager who couldn't stand her touch.”

Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.”

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own