echoes

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"Oh, sleep. Nothing else could ever bring me such pleasure, such freedom, the power to feel and move and think and imagine, safe from the miseries of my waking consciousness."

Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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"As we count up the memories from one journey, we head off on another. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon."

Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

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themes of isolation and loneliness

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If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

-Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

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There are all kinds of things in the world I don't understand, but I really wanted to understand you.

- Heaven, Mieko Kawakami

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But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave

- The Unbearable lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

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"And I don't want to go. I want to stay with you, but that won't be possible. Your heart and mine are being pulled apart to such different, distant places. Yours is overflowing with warmth and life and sounds and smells, but mine is growing cold and hard at a terrifying pace. At some point it will break into a thousand pieces, shards of ice that will dissolve"

~ The Memory Police, Yōko Ogawa